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Vocabulary flashcards covering species names and distinguishing characteristics from intertidal species identification notes.
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Actinia equina
Beadlet anemone, pink/red
Saccorhiza polyschides
Big thick seaweed, green-brown, bobbly bits on the end
Himanthalia elongata
Long brown thin seaweed fronds, small circular receptors at the end
Xanthoria parietina
Crust, yellow lichen on top of rocks
Ascophyllum nodosum
Egg wrack, thin fronds, air bladders
Cereus pedunculatus
Daisy anemone
Fucus serratus
Saw wrack, wide teeth, flat, no air bladders
Porphyra purpurea
Seaweed, brown, thin, sheet-like
Pelvetia canaliculata
Channelled wrack with rolled edges
Pomatoceros triqueter
Worm casing tube
Mytilus edulis
Mussel, black
Littorina saxatilis
Rough periwinkle, no spire
Nucella lapillus
Dogwhelk, oval shape, thick lip
Steromphala umbilicalis
Flat shell with a hole in the center and purple bands
Patella vulgata
Grey, smooth limpet
Ulva lactuca
Sea lettuce
Corallina officinalis
Purple, stony seaweed
Anemonia viridis
Brown sea anemone with bits sticking out
Patella depressa
Spiky limpet
Fucus vesiculosus
Seaweed with branched dichotomous fronds and air bladders
Littorina obtusata
Flat periwinkle, olive yellow, no spire
Palmaria palmata
Red, flat fronds, dichotomously branched seaweed
Laminaria digitata
Brown seaweed, big stick
Mastocarpus stellatus
Crispy dark seaweed
Gracilaria gracilis
Stringy reddish seaweed
trivia monacha
small grey ish shell, orange underneath
ulva intestinalis
small green gut weed
littorina littorea
common periwinkle, grey brown rough
porcellana platycheles
flattened hairy body small
chondrus crispus
irish moss
tritia reticulata
pointy dog whelk
carcinas maenas
green shore crab
oceanebra erinaceus
sculptured shell, conical spire
trivia arctica
arctic cowrie, like orange blobs but no spots
cancer pagarus
brown crab
steromphala cineria
grey top shell, no tooth no hole
pelvetia caniculata
channel wrack, inrolled fronds
crepdula fornicata
stacks of several animals, limpets
osmundea pinnatifida
fern like, reddish brown, pepper dulse