Some common tidepool critters you should be able to identify and tell a story about. . .

 

where to find them, what do they eat, who eats them, adaptations, reproduction, what’s their life like, interesting facts

 

Crustaceans

• Barnacles
  • Acorn
  • Thatched
  • Goose-necked
• Crabs
  • Hermit
  • Shore or Rock
  • Porcelain
• Shrimp and Lobsters

 

Echinoderms

• Urchins
  • Red
  • Purple
• Sea Stars
  • Blue Knobby
  • Ochre (if you find one, holler!)
  • Bat
    
• Sea Cucumber

 

Molluscs

• Limpets
  
  • Owl
  • Keyhole
  • multiple others
• Snails and other mobile shelled creatures — multiple varieties
• Mussels
• Chitons
  • Conspicuous
  • Mossy
  • Troglodyte
  • Scaled
• Abalone (ok, so maybe not that common anymore)
• Sea Hares
  • California Brown
  • Black
• Nudibranchs
• Octopus

 

Cnidarians

• Anemones
  • Solitary
  • Aggregating

 

Worms

• Sand Castle Worms

 

Fish

• Wooly Sculpin
• California Clingfish
• Opaleye
• Blind Goby
• Moray Eels
• Leopard Sharks
• Garibaldi

Last revised 07-Dec-15