Friday Harbor Marine Health Observatory - Monthly Biodiversity Check-List

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FRIDAY HARBOR MARINE HEALTH OBSERVATORY
MONTHLY BIODIVERSITY CHECK-LIST
Team: _________________________
Survey date: _______________, 2011
STEP 1: WALKTHROUGH
DECAPODA
Number
Northern kelp crab
Pugettia producta
Walk your entire area and record all the animals you see that
Graceful kelp crab
Pugettia gracilis
are on this list. For the first group of animals, indicate only
Decorator crab
Oregonia gracilis
whether each species is present (check), or absent (leave
Black-clawed crab
Lophopanopeus bellus
blank). For the remaining animals, enter the actual number
ASTEROIDEA
you see in your area.
Sunflower star
Pycnopodia helianthoides
Rose sun star
Crossaster papossus
GROUP ONE (presence/absence)
Present?
Striped sun star
Solaster stimpsoni
Plumose anemone
Metridium farcimen
Dawson’s sun star
Solaster dawsoni
Northern feather duster
Eudystilia vancouveri
Ochre star
Pisaster ochraeus
Thatched barnacle
Semibalanus cariosus
Giant spiny sea star
Pisaster giganteus
Coonstripe shrimp
Pandalus hypsinotus
Mottled false ochre star
Evasteria troschelii
Blue mussel
Mytilus trossulus
Blood star
Henricia leviuscula
Rock oyster
(green jingle)
Pododesmus macroschisma
OTHERS
Rock scallop
Crassidoma gigantea
Green sea urchin
Strongylocentrotus dröbachiensis
NUDIBRANCHS
Number
California sea cucumber Parastichopus californicus
Clown nudibranch
Triopha catalinae
Golden dirona
Dirona aurantia
STEP 2: CLOSE-UP
Red dendronotus
Dendronotus rufus
Visit your special places and explore them carefully.
For
Red sponge nudibranch
Rostanga pulchra
Group One just record whether animals are present at all.
Monterey dorid
Doris montereyensis
Carefully count all the other species. Record here even if you
Sea lemon
Peltodoris nobilis
already recorded the same animal in Step 1.
San Diego dorid
Dialula sandiegensis
Nanaimo dorid
Acanthodoris nanaimoensis
GROUP ONE (presence/absence)
Present?
Shaggy mouse
Aeolida papillosa
Red sea squirt
Cnemidocarpa finmarkiensis
Horned opalescent
Hermissenda crassicornis
Club tunicate
Styela clava
ACTINARIA
Purple sponge
Haliclona permollis
Christmas anemone
Urticina grebelnya
Mossy chiton
Mopalia muscosa
Red-beaded anemone
Urticina coriacea
Lined chiton
Tonicella lineata
White-spotted anemone
Cribinopsis albopunctata
Brown horse mussel
Modiolus modiolus
Solitary anemone
Anthopleura sola
Spiny pink scallop
Chlamys hastata
Green proliferating
Anthopleura elegantissima

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