Easily Identify the Living Things You Find on Intertidal Rocks!
Enjoy learning to identify marine life on the rocky north Atlantic coast with this pocket-size field guide from author Cherie Hunter Day. With this handy, easy-to-use book, you'll be able to identify a wide variety of living things in no time. And its small size makes it just right for fitting into your pocket or pack when you go for a walk along the rocky coast.
Table of Contents:
Species List
- Blue-green algae
- Thread-like green algae
- Ribbon-like green algae
- Sheet-like green algae
- Brown algae and Rockweed
- Feathery brown algae
- Kelps
- Sheet-like red algae
- Calcified red algae
- Feathery red algae
- Sponges
- Hydroids
- Sea anemones
- Coiled tubeworms
- Scaleworms
- Ribbonworms
- Periwinkles and whelks
- Mussels
- Jingle shells and toenail shells
- Sea slugs and nudibranchs
- Bryozoans and sea-moss animals
- Acorn barnacles
- Isopods
- Amphipods
- Crabs
- Spider crabs
- Lobster
- Hermit crabs
- Sea spiders and pycnogonids
- Sea stars
- Sea cucumber
- Sea urchin
- Tunicates
Cherie Hunter Day currently resides in Menlo Park, California, and is the author of several nature-themed books.
Adventure Publications
Pub Date: January 01, 1987
0.32" H x 4.02" L x 5.88" W
64 pages
paperback