Mollusks
A phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals
What is a Mollusk?
A form of fishing using a large two person net
What is seining?
Area on the shoreline where there are rocks and the tide constantly shifts
What is the Rocky Intertidal Zone?
Any organism carried by currents or tides
What are Plankton?
A sailing ship with two or more masts
What is a schooner?
Filter feeders with two shells and a soft bodied animal inside
What are Bivalves? (clams, mussels & oysters)
A small shoreline fish with a silver side
What is a Silverside?
An invasive species from East Asia that traveled here in the hull of cargo ships
What is the Asian Shore Crab?
What is a copepod?
When an organism breaks out of their hard exoskeleton
What is molting?
A class within this phylum describing animals with one shell and one foot
What is a Gastropod?
Horizontal stripes on a fish tell us this species and gender
What is a female striped killifish?
A native species that can be castrated by a parasite
What is Eurypanopeus depressus?
We often see the cilia of this species spinning
What is Comb jelly?
The metal that makes horseshoe crab blood blue
What is Copper?
The internal structure/backbone of squids
What is the gladius?
This species has a bulbus stomach and is primarily found in the marsh
What is Sheephead?
The tide changes this many times in a day
What is four?
These two crab stages are identifiable in our samples
What is megalopa and zoea?
The Latin name for Asian Shore Crab
What is Hemigrapsus sanguineus?
The Latin name of oyster wasting disease/dermo
What is Perkinsus marinus?
Definition of CPUE
What is catch per unit effort?
These animals are restricted and regularly occurring in this habitat which can be defined as:
What is endemic?
This man wrote the crab guide we refer to
Who is Howard M. Weiss?
What we are doing today
What is Science?