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A tide pool or rock pool is a shallow pool of seawater that forms on the rocky intertidal shore. These pools typically range from a few inches to a few feet deep and a few feet across. [ 1 ] Many of these pools exist as separate bodies of water only at low tide , as seawater gets trapped when the tide recedes.
Birch Aquarium is a public aquarium in La Jolla, a community of San Diego, California. It serves as the public outreach center for Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, with over half a million people visiting the aquarium each year. [5] The aquarium houses more than 3,000 animals representing over 380 ...
dfg.ca.gov. California Department of Fish and Wildlife. March 2014 "Tide Pool Animal Scientific Names". California Tide Pools; Vargas, José A.; Dean, Harlan K. (2010). "On Branchiostoma californiense (Cephalochordata) from the Gulf of Nicoya estuary, Costa Rica" (PDF).
When marine biologist Madison McKay was exploring the tide pools in Monterey, California, she was hoping to explore the vast array of marine life to be found in these fascinating tiny ecosystems ...
Hermit crabs and live Tegula funebralis snails on a dead gumboot chiton, Cryptochiton stelleri, in a tide pool at low tide in central California. It has few natural predators, the most common being the lurid rocksnail, Paciocinebrina lurida—although the small snail's efforts to consume the chiton generally are limited to the outer mantle only.
The Davenport Tide Pools are located just past the town of Davenport, California in the United States. They are located where Davenport Landing Road loops to the sea off Highway 1. [ 1 ] Parallel ridges running perpendicular to the sea separate the tide pools from each other and make them unique, producing communities in which organisms which ...
The tidepool sculpin (Oligocottus maculosus) is a fish species in the sculpin family Cottidae that ranges from the Bering Sea to southern California. Individuals reach up to 8 cm (3 in) in length and are common in tidepools. [2] [3]
Pyrosoma atlanticum by a tide pool in California. According to the World Register of Marine Species, the family is divided into two subfamilies and three genera, containing eight species. [3] Subfamily Pyrosomatinae Lahille, 1888. Genus Pyrosoma Péron, 1804. Pyrosoma aherniosum Seeliger, 1895; Pyrosoma atlanticum Péron, 1804; Pyrosoma ...