Whelks to whales : coastal marine life of the Pacific Northwest / Rick M. Harbo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harbo, Rick M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marine animals--Pacific Coast--Identification--British Columbia.

Marine animals.

British Columbia--Pacific Coast.

United States--Pacific Coast.

Genre:

Field guides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (711 pages)

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Madeira Park, British Columbia : Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd., [2022]

Summary:

One of the best-selling concise guidebooks to marine life of the Pacific Northwest, now revised and updated.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Map of the North Pacific Ocean and the Pacific Northwest Coast

Introduction

Our Rich Marine Life

Distribution of Species

Habitat Conditions

Diverse Habitats

Scientific and Common Names

Marine Species and Their Environment

Marine Conservation

Mass Mortalities of Marine Species

Marine Conservation and Research Societies-Get Involved!

Marine Education and Research

Manage Your Waste!

Sponges

Phylum Porifera

Locomotion

Prey-Predators

Reproduction

Calcareous Sponges - Class Calcarea

1.1 Tubular Vase Sponge

1.2 Stalked Vase Sponge

1.3 Bristly Vase Sponge

1.4 Tube Ball Sponge

1.5 Spaghetti Sponge

Glass Sponges - Class Hexactinellida

Glass Sponge Reefs

1.6 Fingered Goblet Sponge

1.7 Cloud Sponge

1.8 Sharp-Lipped Chimney Sponge

1.9 Round-Lipped Chimney Sponge

Encrusting Sponges, Scallop Sponges, the Hermit Crab Sponge - Class Demospongiae

1.10 Yellow Boring Sponge

1.11 Rough Scallop Sponge

1.12 Smooth Scallop Sponge

1.13 Hermit Crab Sponge

1.14 Purple Encrusting Sponge

1.15 Bread Crumb Sponge

1.16 Yellow-Green Encrusting Sponge

1.17 Orange Cratered Sponge

1.18 Velvety Red Sponge

1.19 Yellow Slime Sponge

1.20 Red Volcano Sponge

1.21 Orange Rough Ball Sponge

1.22 Tennis Ball Sponge

1.23 Spiny Tennis Ball Sponge

1.24 Armoured Ball Sponge

1.25 Peach Ball Sponge

1.26 Chocolate Puffball Sponge

1.27 Glove Sponge

1.28 Orange Finger Sponge

1.29 Stalked Trumpet Sponge and Funnel Sponge

1.30 Thick Nipple Sponge

1.31 Pointed Nipple Sponge

1.32 Spotted Gray Sponge

1.33 White Reticulated Sponge

1.34 White Sponge

1.35 White Pipecleaner Sponge

Hydroids, Corals, Sea Anemones, Jellyfish, Comb Jellies

Phylum Cnidaria

Locomotion.

Prey-Predators

Edibility

Hydroids (Sea Firs, Sea Trees, Sea Plumes, Sea-Ferns) - Class Hydrozoa

Order Hydroida

2.1 Coarse Sea Fir

2.2 Fibre-Optic Hydroid

2.3 Ostrich Plume Hydroid

2.4 Raspberry Hydroid

2.5 Bushy Pink Mouth Hydroid

2.6 Solitary Pink Mouth Hydroid

2.7 Orange Hydroid

2.8 Hedgehog Hydroid

2.9 Barnacle Fur Hydroid

2.10 Snail Fur Hydroid

2.11 Glassy Plume Hydroid

2.12 White Hydroid

Cold Water Corals - Hydrocorals, Octocorals (Sea Pens, Soft Corals, Sea Fans or Gorgonian Corals), Cup Corals and Corallomorphs

Order Stylasterina

2.13 Encrusting Hydrocorals

2.14 Pink Hydrocoral

2.15 Pink Hydrocoral

Octocorals: Sea Pens, Soft Corals, Sea Fans (Gorgonian Corals), Anemones, and Jellyfish - Class Anthozoa

Sea Pens - Order Pennatulacea

2.16 Orange Sea Pen

2.17 White Sea Pen

2.18 Rough White Sea Pen

2.19 Sea Whip

2.20 Graceful Sea Pen

Soft Corals - Order Alcyonacea

2.21 Red Berry Soft Coral

2.22 Pale Berry Soft Coral

2.23 Pale Soft Coral

2.24 White Disc Soft Coral

Sea Fans (Gorgonian Corals) - Order Gorgonacea

2.25 Dwarf Red Sea Fan (Gorgonian Coral)

2.26 Pink Sea Fan (Gorgonian Coral)

2.27 Pink Candelabrum Coral

Cup Corals, Club Anemones, Zoanthids, Anemones - Subclass Zoantharia

Cup Corals (Stony corals) - Order Scleractinia

2.28 Orange Cup Coral

2.29 Round Tan Cup Coral

2.30 Oval Tan Cup Coral

Corallimorphs (Club Anemones) - Order Corallimorpharia

2.31 Strawberry Anemone

Zoanthids - Order Zoanthidea

2.32 Orange Zoanthids

Anemones - Order Actiniaria

2.33 Short Plumose Anemone

2.34 Giant Plumose Anemone

2.35 Brooding Anemone

2.36 Giant Green Anemone

2.37 Pink-Tipped Green Anemone

2.38 Buried Green Anemone

2.39 Painted Anemone

2.40 Fish-Eating Anemone.

2.41 Stubby Buried Anemone

2.42 Columbia Sand Anemone

2.43 White-Spotted Anemone

2.44 Pale Snakelock Anemone

2.45 Crimson Anemone

2.46 Swimming Anemone

2.47 Spotted Swimming Anemone

Tube-dwelling Anemones - Order Ceriantharia

2.48 Tube-Dwelling Anemone

Jellyfish

Class Hydrozoa

"Small" Jellyfish Hydromedusae - Order Siphonophora

2.49 Clinging Jellyfish

2.50 By-the-Wind-Sailor Jellyfish

2.51 Water Jellyfish

2.52 Red-Eye Medusa

Large "True" Jellyfish - Class Scyphozoa

Order Semaeostomeae

2.53 Moon Jellyfish

2.54 Lion's Mane Jellyfish

2.55 Fried Egg Jellyfish

Stalked Jellyfish or Medusa - Order Stauromedusae

2.56 Bushy Stalked Medusa

2.57 Striped Stalked Medusa

2.58 Herring-Bone Stalked Medusa

2.59 Red and White Stalked Medusa

Phylum Ctenophora Comb jellies (sea combs, sea gooseberries, ctenophores)

Order Cydippida

2.60 Cat's Eye Comb Jelly

Order Beroida

2.61 Lobed Comb Jelly

Worms

Phylum Annelida Segmented Worms

Class Polychaeta

Sedentary Segmented Worms

3.1 Fringed Tube Worms

3.2 Coralline Fringed Tube Worm

3.3 Cemented Tube Worm

3.4 Northern Feather Duster Worm

3.5 Red Trumpet Calcareous Tube Worm

3.6 Pearl-Topped Calcareous Tube Worm

3.7 White Crown Calcareous Tube Worm

3.8 Orange Tube Worm

3.9 Fibre-Tube Worm

3.10 Slime Tube Worm

3.11 Pacific Lugworm

3.12 Sand-Binding Tube Worm

3.13 Sea Mouse (Worm)

Free-Swimming Segmented Worms

3.14 Clam Worm

3.15 Blood Worm

3.16 Bat Star Worm

Scale Worms

3.17 Eighteen-Scaled Worm

3.18 Ruffled Scale Worm

3.19 Red Scale Worm

Phylum Nemertea Ribbon Worms

3.20 Green And Yellow Ribbon Worm

3.21 Purple-Backed Ribbon Worm

3.22 Six-Lined Ribbon Worm

3.23 Primitive Ribbon Worm

3.24 White-Lined Ribbon Worm.

Phylum Platyhelminthes Flatworms

Polyclad Flatworms

3.25 Bivalve Flatworm

3.26 Giant Flatworm

Moss Animals

Phylum Bryozoa (Ectoprocta)

Physical Features

Class Stenolaemata

Order Cyclostomatida

4.1 White Branching Bryozoan

4.2 Northern Staghorn Bryozoan

4.3 Purple Encrusting Bryozoan

4.4 Yellow Encrusting Bryozoan

Class Gymnolaemata

Soft-bodied bryozoans - Order Ctenostomatida

4.5 Smooth Leather Bryozoan

Encrusting, erect and branching bryozoans - Order Cheilostomatida

4.6 Kelp Lacy Bryozoan

4.7 Stick Bryozoan

4.8 Spiral Bryozoan

4.9 Orange Fluted Bryozoan

4.10 Yellow Fluted Bryozoan

4.11 Orange Crust Bryozoan

4.12 Lacy Bryozoan

4.13 Rusty Bryozoan

4.14 Coral Tube Bryozoan

Crabs, Shrimp, Isopods, Amphipods, Barnacles

Phylum Arthropoda

Crabs, krill, shrimp, isopods, amphipods and others - Class Malacostraca

Shrimp and Crabs - Order Decapoda

Mud Shrimp, Ghost Shrimp - Infraorder Thassinidea

5.1 Blue Mud Shrimp

5.2 Bay Ghost Shrimp

Hermit Crabs, King Crabs, Lithodid Crabs, Galatheid Crabs, Porcelain Crabs - Infraorder Anomura

5.3 Orange Hermit Crab

5.4 Widehand Hermit Crab

5.5 Blackeyed Hermit

5.6 Bering Hermit Crab

5.7 Gold Ring Hermit Crab

5.8 Hairy Hermit Crab

5.9 Grainy-Hand Hermit Crab

5.10 Greenmark Hermit Crab

5.11 Alaskan Hermit Crab

5.12 Steven's Hermit Crab

Lithodid Crabs

5.13 Red Fur Crab

5.14 Umbrella Crab

5.15 Butterfly Crab

5.16 Hairy Lithodid

5.17 Brown Box Crab

5.18 Puget Sound King Crab

5.19 Granular Claw Crab

5.20 Heart Crab

5.21 Scaly Lithodid

5.22 Golf-Ball Crab

Galatheid Crabs

5.23 Squat Lobster

Porcelain Crabs

5.24 Hairy Flat-Top Porcelain Crab

5.25 Hairy Porcelain Crab.

5.26 Thickclaw Porcelain Crab

"True Crabs" - Infraorder Brachyura

Shore Crabs

5.27 "Purple" Shore Crab

5.28 Hairy Green Shore Crab

5.29 Black-Clawed Shore Crab

Spider Crabs, Decorator Crabs, Kelp Crabs

5.30 Tanner Crab

5.31 Longhorn Decorator Crab

5.32 Slender Decorator Crab

5.33 Slender Kelp Crab

5.34 Northern Kelp Crab

5.35 Cryptic Kelp Crab

5.36 Sharp-Nosed Crab

Bristly Crabs

5.37 Helmet Crab

Cancer Crabs

5.38 Dungeness Crab

5.39 Red Rock Crab

5.40 Slender Cancer Crab

5.41 Spot-Bellied Cancer Crab

5.42 Hairy Cancer Crab

Shrimp - Infraorder Caridea

Edible/Commercial Shrimp

5.43 Spiny Pink Shrimp

5.44 Coonstripe Shrimp

5.45 Humpback Shrimp

5.46 Spot Prawn

5.47 Sidestripe Shrimp

Non-Commercial Shrimp

5.48 Sitka Shrimp

5.49 Stout Coastal Shrimp

5.50 Broken-Back Shrimp

5.51 Candy Stripe Shrimp

5.52 Horned Shrimp

Isopods - Order Isopoda

5.53 Rockweed Isopod

Amphipods - Order Amphipoda

5.54 Pale Beach Hopper

5.55 Skeleton Shrimp

5.56 Red Urchin Sediment Whip Amphipod

5.57 Black and White Amphipod

Class Thecostraca

Barnacles - Infraclass Cirripedia

5.58 Giant Barnacle

5.59 Acorn Barnacle

5.60 Little Brown Barnacle

5.61 Thatched Barnacle

5.62 Crenate Barnacle

5.63 Hydrocoral Barnacle

5.64 Shell Barnacle

5.65 Goose Barnacle

5.66 Pelagic Goose Barnacle

Bivalves, Snails, Limpets, Nudibranchs, Octopus, Squid, Chitons, Lampshells

Phylum Mollusca

Class Bivalvia

Mussels

6.1 Pacific Blue Mussel

6.2 California Mussel

6.3 Northern Horsemussel

6.4 Straight (Upright) Horsemussel

Oysters

6.5 Pacific Oyster

6.6 Olympia Oyster

Jingle/Rock Oysters, or False-Jingles

6.7 Green False-Jingle

Scallops

6.8 Rock Scallop.

6.9 Smooth Pink Scallop.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781550179842

1550179845

OCLC:

1374429755