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Common Name: Horned Stalked Jellyfish
Location Found: Grimes Cove, Boothbay, ME
Habitat Found: Usually found in the subtidal zone, attached to algae or rock
Physical Description: The Horned Stalked Jellyfish has eight paired arms and is usually light yellow or white in coloration
Fun Fact: The Horn Stalked Jellyfish can undergo locomotion by moving its stalk, or even releasing its stalk and "walking" on its tentacles
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Scientific Name: Tonicella marmorea
Common Name: Mottled Red Chiton
Location Found: Grimes Cove, Boothbay, ME
Habitat Found: Found on rocks and other hard substrates, from shallow water to 90 meters
Physical Description: The eight valves of this chiton are dull, and the mantle is smooth and leathery. The color is variable and includes mottled, reddish, brown, bluish, green, purple and pink.
Fun Fact: This chiton feeds on algae as well as sponges, hydroids and bryozoans
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Cangrejo de Rocas del Atlantico (Cancer irroratus)Autor
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Scientific Name: Cancer irroratus
Common Name: Atlantic Rock Crab
Location Found: Nahant, MA
Habitat Found: Found on rocky shores, intertidally to 780 meters
Physical Description: Carapace is broad, convex, and inundated with fine granulations. The color of the carapace is yellowish with many brick red to purple red or purple brown dots.
Fun Fact: Rock Crabs are highly edible and are commonly served in Maine
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Common Name: American Lobster or Northern Lobster
Location Found: Grimes Cove, Boothbay, ME
Habitat Found: Found on rocky and sandy bottoms, from shallow water to 600 meters
Physical Description: The body of the American lobster is composed of two main parts, the cylindrical cephalothorax, and the abdomen. The head has two pairs of antennae, and one pair of eyes on stalks. The color of the American lobster is usually greenish brown or orangish, but can be blue or red
Fun Fact: During the colonial era, lobsters were routinely fed to prisoners because their abundance made them one of the cheapest sources of protein and they were not regarded as the delicacies that they are today
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Common Name: Sea Lace or Kelp Lace Bryozoan
Location Found: Grimes Cove, Boothbay, ME
Habitat Found: Found growing on almost everything, from hard substrates to algae. Found from the low-tide line to shallow water
Physical Description: The colonies of this bryozoan are lacy crusts of irregular shapes. The zooids are rectangular with a membranous frontal wall. They are white in color
Fun Fact: This bryozoan is common on kelp
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Common Name: Dwarf Balloon Eolis or Club-Gilled Nudibranch
Location Found: Grimes Cove, Boothbay, ME
Habitat Found: Found among hydroids, in shallow water
Physical Description: On either side of this nudibranch there are five to ten plump, banded cerata. The body is usually translucent brown, while the cerata have reddish bands
Fun Fact: This nudibranch is very uncommon
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Tunicado Marino Asiático (Botrylloides violaceus)Autor
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Scientific Name: Botrylloides violaceus
Common Name: Violet Tunicate or Orange Sheath Tunicate
Location Found: Grimes Cove, Boothbay, ME
Habitat Found: Found on the hard substrate in bays and protected areas, from the low-tide line to shallow water
Physical Description: This colonial tunicate forms a thin, soft, fleshy crust. The zooids are arranged in twisting rows. The color is variable, ranging from orange to yellow and red
Fun Fact: This tunicate replicates by budding, which occurs in the lateral regions of the body
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Cangrejo Verde Europeo (Carcinus maenas)Autor
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Common Name: European Green Crab
Location Found: Canoe Beach, Nahant, MA
Habitat Found: Rocky shores and bottoms, intertidally to shallow water
Physical Description: The carapace of the European Green Crab is wider than it is long. There are three frontal teeth, along with five on either side of the eye sockets. The carapace of males is green, and the ventral side is yellowish
Fun Fact: The European Green Crab is an invasive species
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Common Name: Common Sand Dollar
Location: Crane Beach, Ipswich, MA
Habitat Found: Found on sandy bottoms, from the low-tide line to 1 mile deep
Physical Description: The Common Sand Dollar is flat with a very thin test, and a five-point, petal-like pattern of tiny holes on its upper surface. The mouth, located underneath in the center of the animal, has five branching grooves leading to it
Fun Fact: The purplish color of the live sand dollar is very soluble and staines indelibly
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Common Name: Common Slipper Snail
Location Found: Pump House Beach, Nahant MA
Habitat Found: Found intertidally to 12 m on hard substrates
Physical Description: The shell is convexed with a coiled apex turned down to one side. Because the shape is determined by the object to which it is attached, some shells are flatter than others. Both the interior and exterior of the shell are white with brown markings
Fun Fact: These gastropods are often found in stacks where the bottom shell is the female and the top shell is the male. The shells in the middle have undergone a sex change and are hermaphrodites
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Anémona Plumosa (Metridium senile)Autor
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Common Name: Plumose Anemone or Frilled Anemone
Location Found: Canoe Beach, Nahant MA
Habitat Found: Found on solid substrate, intertidally to 45.5 meters
Physical Description: The Frilled Anemone has a tall, smooth column with a widely expanded oral disk. The disk is divided into waved lobes and is surrounded by many small, slender tentacles. The column of these anemones can be brownish, white, or cream colored. The tentacles are whitish.
Fun Fact: The Frilled Anemone can reproduce both asexually and sexually.
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Common Name: Rough Barnacle
Location Found: Canoe Beach, Nahant MA
Habitat Found: Found on hard surfaces, intertidally to subtidally
Physical Description: The shape of the Common Barnacle is variable; it is usually conical, found in dense colonies, rough and elongated.
Fun Fact: The Common Barnacle is hermaphroditic, but cannot fertilize itself. Gametes are transferred with a penis which may be up to 7.5 centimeters long
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Common Name: Common Oyster
Location Found: Canoe Beach, Nahant MA
Habitat Found: Water of reduced salinity, intertidally to subtidally, in depths up to 12 m
Physical Description: The shape of the common oyster is extremely variable; it is influenced by the medium on which the oyster grows and the surrounding location.
Fun Fact: Large oysters can release up to 100 million eggs per spawn, and they may spawn several times a year.
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Common Name: Red Gilled Nudibranch
Location Found: Off of Canoe Beach, Nahant MA
Habitat Found: Found on seaweeds and rocks from low-tide line to deep water
Physical Description: Red-gilled nudibranchs are characterized by their clustered branchiae (gills) tipped with a white ring.
Fun Fact: Red Gilled Nudibranchs can sequester the nematocysts of their prey to use for defense
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Asterias forbesiAutor
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Common Name: Forbe's Sea Star
Location Found: Off of Canoe Beach, Nahant MA
Habitat Found: Found intertidally on rocky, sandy and gravelly bottoms up to 45 meters.
Physical Description: Forebsi normally has 5 arms, though it can be found with 4 to 7. Madreporite is normally orange.
Fun Fact: Releases free-floating eggs into the water column.
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Common Name: Flat Periwinkle or Smooth Periwinkle
Location Found: Dive Beach, Nahant MA
Habitat Found: Found intertidally on Fucus and Ascophyllum nodosum
Physical Description: Small gastropod with a low spire and four whorls, the last of which is the largest. Usually brownish yellow or orange yellow in coloration, but can be green, black or brown.
Fun Fact: The Smooth Periwinkle lays its egg masses directly on brown algae
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Mejillón Azul del Atlántico Norte (Mytilus edulis)Autor
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Common Name: Blue Mussel
Location Found: Dive Beach, Nahant MA
Habitat Found: Found on solid substrate, rocky shores and wharf pilings–intertidally to several feet deep
Physical Description: Elongated and narrow-ended filter-feeding bivalve. Blue black to purple blue in color.
Fun Fact: Blue mussels can switch locations by moving their foot, attaching new byssal threads, and releasing their old ones.
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Nucella lapillusAutor
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Common Name: Dog Whelk or Atlantic Dogwinkle
Location Found: Pump House Beach, Nahant MA
Habitat Found: Rocky intertidal
Physical Description: The shell is rough, thick, pointed at both ends and contains 5 whorls, a short spire, and a blunt apex. The color of the shell varies from white to yellow to brown.
Fun Fact: The food source of the dog whelk partially determines the color of its shell
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