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Anemones

Anemones. colonial anemones. flower-like form efficient meat-eating carnivores, capable of catching fish and small crustaceans by paralyzing them with stinging tentacles and devouring their prey. Corals. Porites sp. (pore coral). Porites sp. (pore coral).

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Anemones

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  1. Anemones colonial anemones

  2. flower-like form • efficient meat-eating carnivores, • capable of catching fish and small crustaceans by paralyzing them with stinging tentacles and devouring their prey.

  3. Corals Porites sp. (pore coral) Porites sp. (pore coral) Turbinaria sp. (disc coral) Goniopora sp.

  4. Star Coral

  5. Worms Tube worm (aka featherduster) Bristle worm Fireworm - The bristles release a stinging substance. Do not touch!

  6. Molluscs

  7. Molluscs • include all the shelled creatures of the seashore, with the exception of the barnacles. • are abundant in the region between high and low tide and are a major feature of all rocky ocean shores. • form one of the largest groups in the animal kingdom, with more than 80,000 known species.

  8. Molluscs Mussels Limpets Shells

  9. Limpets are distinctive animals which are best known for their ability to cling onto rocks When the tide is high, the limpets move about grazing on algae. As the tide drops, they usually return to their resting place.

  10. Echinoderms = Echino (spiny), derm (skin) Sea Cucumbers Sea Urchins Star Fishes Brittle Star

  11. Sea Urchin Brittle Star

  12. http://www.fspi.org.fj/images/4.%20Sea%20Cucumber%20Cleaners.jpghttp://www.fspi.org.fj/images/4.%20Sea%20Cucumber%20Cleaners.jpg

  13. Metopograpsus The male shrimp have one enlarged claw which they snap to make a popping noise. They can be heard all over the intertidal. Snapping shrimp World’s smallest crab

  14. seaslugs (They're well camouflaged. At least 5 of them in this pic)

  15. Insects Sea cockroach

  16. Vertebrates Scorpion fish Juvenile striped eel-tailed catfish (Plotosus lineatus) gobies

  17. POLYCHAETES: THE MARINE WORMS As pollution indicator?? http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/polychaete/Introworms.html

  18. MONITORING PROGRAMMES • Toxic algae • Pathogenic bacteria and viruses • Chemical contaminants • Diversity and abundance of the flora and fauna http://www.fao.org/documents/show_cdr.asp?url_file=/DOCREP/006/Y4743E/y4743e0l.htm

  19. A poacher actually said, "The sign say cannot take crab and shell, but never say coral."

  20. Bibliography • http://www.mesa.edu.au/friends/seashores/taxonomy.html

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