The new beachcomber's guide to seashore life of California / J. Duane Sept.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sept, J. Duane, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intertidal organisms--California--Identification.

Intertidal organisms.

Seashore animals--California--Identification.

Seashore animals.

Seashore plants--California--Identification.

Seashore plants.

Beachcombing--California--Guidebooks.

Beachcombing.

Seashore biology--California.

Seashore biology.

Seashore ecology--California.

Seashore ecology.

California--Guidebooks.

California.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (573 pages)

Edition:

First edition, completely revised and expanded.

Place of Publication:

Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd., [2023]

Summary:

The New Beachcomber’s Guide to Seashore Life of California by J. Duane Sept is a comprehensive field guide to the diverse intertidal marine life found along the California coast. This revised and expanded edition provides detailed descriptions and photographs of various species, including sponges, anemones, mollusks, arthropods, and seaweeds, among others. The book aims to enhance readers' understanding and appreciation of the ecological interrelationships and habitats within the intertidal zone. It serves as an educational resource for both casual beachgoers and serious naturalists, highlighting the importance of conservation and careful observation. The guide offers practical information on tides and the best times to view marine life, encouraging responsible exploration of these fragile ecosystems. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title Page

Dedication

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Understanding Tides

Understanding Intertidal Habitats

Sand Beaches And Mudflats

Sand Beaches

Mudflats

Rocky Shores

Splash Zone

High Intertidal Zone

Middle Intertidal Zone

Low Intertidal Zone

Microhabitats

Under Rocks

Tidepools

Floating Docks and Pilings

Harvesting Shellfish

Red Tide

PSP (Red Tide) Hotline

Protecting Our Marine Resource

Observing Intertidal Life

A Note Of Caution

Getting The Most Out of This Guide

Shell Plates

Field Guide

Sponges

Smooth Urn Sponge

California Boring Sponge

Red Encrusting Sponge

Mucus Sponge

Purple Encrusting Sponge

Gray Moon Sponge

Yellow-green Encrusting Sponge

Cobalt Sponge

Purple Slippery Sponge

Orange Finger Sponge

Sea Anemones, Hydroids &amp

Jellies

Sea Anemones &amp

Cup Corals

Orange Cup Coral

Aggregating Soft Coral

Jelly-dwelling Anemone

Ten-tentacled Anemone

Moonglow Anemone

Aggregating Anemone

Sunburst Anemone

Giant Green Anemone

Incubating Anemone

Brooding Anemone

Proliferating Anemone

Stubby Rose Anemone

Warty Painted Anemone

White-spotted Anemone

Fish-eating Anemone

Short Plumose Anemone

Giant Plumose Anemone

Orange-striped Anemone

Strawberry Anemone

Hydroids &amp

Allies

Orange Hydroid

Purple Encrusting Hydrocoral

Bean Clam Hydroid

Turgid Garland Hydroid

Ostrich-plume Hydroid

Solitary Pink-mouth Hydroid

By-the-wind Sailor

Cross Jelly

Many-ribbed Hydromedusa

Red-eye Medusa

Aggregating Jelly

Large True Jellies &amp

Stalked Jellies

Pacific Sea Nettle

Black Sea Nettle

Purple-striped Jelly

Lion's Mane Jelly

Pacific Moon Jelly

Fried Egg Jelly

Comb Jellies.

California Sea Gooseberry

Sea Gooseberry

Spotted Comb Jelly

Marine Worms

Flatworms

Dalmatian Polyclad

Montgomery's Flatworm

California Flatworm

Large Leaf Worm

Tapered Flatworm

Black-striped Flatworm

Ruffled Black-ridged Flatworm

Monterey Flatworm

Ribbon Worms

Six-lined Ribbon Worm

Orange Ribbon Worm

Rose Ribbon Worm

Lavender and White Ribbon Worm

Two-spotted Ribbon Worm

V-Neck Ribbon Worm

Pink-fronted Ribbon Worm

Many-eyed Ribbon Worm

Green Ribbon Worm

Purple-backed Ribbon Worm

Velvet Ribbon Worm

Segmented Worms

American Proboscis Worm

Bat Star Worm

Pile Worm

Giant Clam Bed Worm

Leafy Shimmyworm

California Fireworm

Copper-haired Sea Mouse

Painted Fifteen-paired Scaleworm

White-banded Scaleworm

Eighteen-paired Scaleworm

Frilled Commensal Scaleworm

Red Commensal Scaleworm

Red-banded Commensal Scaleworm

Porcupine Worm

Fringed Filament-worm

Sheathed Bristle-cage Worm

Utility-worm

Pacific Lugworm

Red-banded Bamboo-worm

California Sandcastle Worm

California Trumpetworm

Fringe-hooded Tube Worm

Basket-top Tube Worm

Coarse-tubed Pink Spaghetti-worm

Brown Intertidal Spaghetti-worm

Robust Spaghetti-worm

Split-plume Feather-duster Worm

Northern Feather-duster Worm

Spiny Christmas-tree Worm

Shell-binding Colonial Worm

Red-trumpet Calcareous Tubeworm

Spiral Tube Worm

Peanut Worms

Pacific Peanut Worm

Bushy-headed Peanut Worm

Echiuran Worms (Spoonworms)

Fat Innkeeper Worm

Acorn Worms

Acorn Worm

Molluscs

Chitons

Dwarf Chiton

Thick Ribbed Chiton

Humptailed Chiton

Pectinate Lepidozona

Radiating Chiton

Cooper's Chiton

Merten's Chiton

Conspicuous Chiton

Heath's Chiton

Rosy Slender Chiton

Regular Chiton

Gould's Baby Chiton.

Hartweg's Chiton

Keep's Chiton

California Spiny Chiton

Southern Spiny Chiton

Cryptic Spiny Chiton

Gem Chiton

Painted Dendrochiton

Lined Chiton

Loki's Chiton

Blue-line Chiton

Southern Hairy Chiton

Northern Hairy Chiton

Mossy Chiton

Woody Chiton

Hind's Mopalia

Swan's Mopalia

Sinuate Mopalia

Red-flecked Mopalia

Veiled-chiton

Black Katy Chiton

Giant Pacific Chiton

Abalone, Limpets &amp

Snails

Rough Keyhole Limpet

Giant Keyhole Limpet

Two-spotted Keyhole Limpet

Volcano Keyhole Limpet

Hooded Puncturella

Many-ribbed Puncturella

Ringed Blind Limpet

Whitecap Limpet

Giant Owl Limpet

Shield Limpet

Northern Finger Limpet

Southern Finger Limpet

Dwarf Finger Limpet

Rough Limpet

Test's Limpet

File Limpet

Black Limpet

Fenestrate Limpet

Mask Limpet

Pacific Plate Limpet

Seaweed Limpet

Unstable Limpet

Surfgrass Limpet

Painted Limpet

Black Abalone

Northern Abalone

Red Abalone

Green Abalone

Flat Abalone

Flat Hoofsnail

Pacific Half-slippersnail

Onyx Slippersnail

Atlantic Convex Slippersnail

Northern White Slippersnail

Western White Slippersnail

Hooked Slippersnail

Spiny Cup-and-saucer

Cup-and-saucer Snail

Reticulate Button Snail

Red Turban Snail

Wavy Turban Snail

Brown Turban Snail

Dusky Turban Snail

Black Turban Snail

Speckled Turban Snail

Gilded Turban Snail

Monterey Turban Snail

Western Banded Turban Snail

Norris's Top Snail

Dark Dwarf-turban Snail

Spiral Margarite

Puppet Margarite

Channelled Topsnail

Glorious Topsnail

Blue Topsnail

Three-colored Topsnail

Checkered Periwinkle

Little Checkered Periwinkle

Flat-bottomed Periwinkle

Variable Lacuna

Wide Lacuna

Scaled Wormsnail

Monterey Wormsnail

Mudflat Snail.

California Hornsnail

Threaded Bittium

Boreal Wentletrap

Scallop-edged Wentletrap

Money Wentletrap

Tinted Wentletrap

Appleseed Erato

Solander's Trivia

California Trivia

Chestnut Cowrie

Lewis's Moonsnail

Recluz's Moonsnail

Western Baby's Ear

Oregon Triton

Angular Unicorn

Checkered Unicorn

Spotted Unicorn

Leafy Hornmouth

Nuttall's Hornmouth

Gem Murex

Festive Murex

Three-wing Murex

Circled Rocksnail

Sculptured Rocksnail

Purple Rocksnail

Lurid Rocksnail

Japanese Oyster Drill

Poulson's Rock Snail

Atlantic Oyster Drill

Carinate Dovesnail

Variegated Amphissa

Wrinkled Amphissa

Frilled Dogwinkle

Lined Dogwinkle

Northern Striped Dogwinkle

Southern Striped Dogwinkle

Dark Unicorn Whelk

Kellet's Whelk

Dire Whelk

Western Lean Nassa

Western Fat Nassa

Giant Western Nassa

Channeled Whelk

Eastern Mud Snail

Painted Spindle

Purple Olive

Baetic Olive

Zigzag Olive

Ida's Miter

California Marginella

California Cone

Gray Snakeskin-snail

Common Purple Sea-snail

Stearn's Ear Snail

San Diego Lamellaria

Shield Falselimpet

Spectacular Corolla

Leather Limpet

Nudibranchs &amp

Nudibranch Allies

Striped Barrel Snail

Western Barrel-bubble

Pleatless Barrel-bubble

Cloudy Bubble Snail

White Bubble Snail

Japanese Bubble Snail

Green Bubble Snail

Spotted Aglajid

Navanax

California Seahare

California Black Seahare

Taylor's Seahare

Mushroom Sidegill

White Berthella

Hedgpeth's Seahare

Nudibranchs (Order Nudibranchia)

Cryptic Nudibranch

Frost-spot Nudibranch

Hudson's Horned Dorid

Rufus Tipped Nudibranch

Hopkin's Rose

Black-tipped Spiny Doris

Barnacle-eating Dorid

Fuzzy Onchidoris

Salt-and-pepper Nudibranch

Cockerell's Dorid.

Sorcerer's Nudibranch

Catalina Clown Dorid

Modest Clown Dorid

Spotted Triopha

Cooper's Dorid

Spotted Leopard Dorid

Ringed Dorid

Monterey Sea Lemon

Sea Lemon

Heath's Dorid

Red Sponge Nudibranch

Yellow-edged Nudibranch

Yellow-spotted Cadlina

Modest Cadlina

MacFarland's Chromodorid

California Blue Dorid

Porter's Blue Dorid

White-spotted Sea Goddess

California Yellow-gilled Sea Goddess

Diamondback Tritonia

White Dendronotid

Bushy-backed Nudibranch

Rainbow Nudibranch

Stubby Dendronotus

Hancock's Nudibranch

Hammerhead Doto

Hooded Nudibranch

Frosted Nudibranch

Painted Nudibranch

White-and-orange-tipped Nudibranch

Spanish Shawl

Three-lined Aeolid

California Shag-rug Nudibranch

Olive's Aeolid

Baba's Festive Aeolid

Opalescent Nudibranch

Hilton's Aeolid

Bivalves

Furrowed Nutclam

Western Bittersweet

California Mussel

Mediterranean Mussel

Pacific Blue Mussel

Asian Datemussel

California Datemussel

Northern Horsemussel

Straight Horsemussel

Atlantic Ribbed Mussel

Platform Mussel

Hemphill Fileclam

Olympia Oyster

Pacific Oyster

Eastern Oyster

San Diego Scallop

Spiny Pink Scallop

Smooth Pink Scallop

Pacific Calico Scallop

Kelp Scallop

Giant Rock Scallop

Pearly Jingle

Green False-jingle

California Lucine

Carpenter Carditid

Secret Jewelbox

Pacific Left-handed Jewelbox

Kellyclam

Mud Shrimp Clam

Nuttall's Cockle

Low-rib Cockle

Pacific Eggcockle

Spiny Cockle

California Venus

Wavy Venus

Smooth Venus

Rock Venus

Pacific Littleneck

Japanese Littleneck

Rough-sided Littleneck

Thin-shelled Littleneck

Pismo Clam

White Venus

Washington Butter Clam

California Butter Clam

Hearty Petricolid

Bodega Tellin

Plain Tellin.

Bent-nose Macoma.

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ISBN:

9781990776083

1990776086

OCLC:

1399168476