Whelks to whales : coastal marine life of the Pacific Northwest / / Rick M. Harbo

• Autore: Harbo Rick M.
• Pubblicazione: Madeira Park, British Columbia : , : Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd., , [2022]; ©2022
• Edizione: Third edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (711 pages)
• Disciplina: 591.770979509146
• Soggetto topico: Marine animals - Pacific Coast - British Columbia
• Soggetto geografico: British Columbia Pacific Coast; United States Pacific Coast
• Soggetto genere / forma: Field guides.; Guides d'identification
• Classificazione: cci1icc
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Map of the North Pacific Ocean and the Pacific Northwest Coast -- Introduction -- Our Rich Marine Life -- Distribution of Species -- Habitat Conditions -- Diverse Habitats -- Scientific and Common Names -- Marine Species and Their Environment -- Marine Conservation -- Mass Mortalities of Marine Species -- Marine Conservation and Research Societies-Get Involved! -- Marine Education and Research -- Manage Your Waste! -- Sponges -- Phylum Porifera -- Locomotion -- Prey-Predators -- Reproduction -- Calcareous Sponges - Class Calcarea -- 1.1 Tubular Vase Sponge -- 1.2 Stalked Vase Sponge -- 1.3 Bristly Vase Sponge -- 1.4 Tube Ball Sponge -- 1.5 Spaghetti Sponge -- Glass Sponges - Class Hexactinellida -- Glass Sponge Reefs -- 1.6 Fingered Goblet Sponge -- 1.7 Cloud Sponge -- 1.8 Sharp-Lipped Chimney Sponge -- 1.9 Round-Lipped Chimney Sponge -- Encrusting Sponges, Scallop Sponges, the Hermit Crab Sponge - Class Demospongiae -- 1.10 Yellow Boring Sponge -- 1.11 Rough Scallop Sponge -- 1.12 Smooth Scallop Sponge -- 1.13 Hermit Crab Sponge -- 1.14 Purple Encrusting Sponge -- 1.15 Bread Crumb Sponge -- 1.16 Yellow-Green Encrusting Sponge -- 1.17 Orange Cratered Sponge -- 1.18 Velvety Red Sponge -- 1.19 Yellow Slime Sponge -- 1.20 Red Volcano Sponge -- 1.21 Orange Rough Ball Sponge -- 1.22 Tennis Ball Sponge -- 1.23 Spiny Tennis Ball Sponge -- 1.24 Armoured Ball Sponge -- 1.25 Peach Ball Sponge -- 1.26 Chocolate Puffball Sponge -- 1.27 Glove Sponge -- 1.28 Orange Finger Sponge -- 1.29 Stalked Trumpet Sponge and Funnel Sponge -- 1.30 Thick Nipple Sponge -- 1.31 Pointed Nipple Sponge -- 1.32 Spotted Gray Sponge -- 1.33 White Reticulated Sponge -- 1.34 White Sponge -- 1.35 White Pipecleaner Sponge -- Hydroids, Corals, Sea Anemones, Jellyfish, Comb Jellies -- Phylum Cnidaria -- Locomotion. ; Prey-Predators -- Reproduction -- Edibility -- Hydroids (Sea Firs, Sea Trees, Sea Plumes, Sea-Ferns) - Class Hydrozoa -- Order Hydroida -- 2.1 Coarse Sea Fir -- 2.2 Fibre-Optic Hydroid -- 2.3 Ostrich Plume Hydroid -- 2.4 Raspberry Hydroid -- 2.5 Bushy Pink Mouth Hydroid -- 2.6 Solitary Pink Mouth Hydroid -- 2.7 Orange Hydroid -- 2.8 Hedgehog Hydroid -- 2.9 Barnacle Fur Hydroid -- 2.10 Snail Fur Hydroid -- 2.11 Glassy Plume Hydroid -- 2.12 White Hydroid -- Cold Water Corals - Hydrocorals, Octocorals (Sea Pens, Soft Corals, Sea Fans or Gorgonian Corals), Cup Corals and Corallomorphs -- Order Stylasterina -- 2.13 Encrusting Hydrocorals -- 2.14 Pink Hydrocoral -- 2.15 Pink Hydrocoral -- Octocorals: Sea Pens, Soft Corals, Sea Fans (Gorgonian Corals), Anemones, and Jellyfish - Class Anthozoa -- Sea Pens - Order Pennatulacea -- 2.16 Orange Sea Pen -- 2.17 White Sea Pen -- 2.18 Rough White Sea Pen -- 2.19 Sea Whip -- 2.20 Graceful Sea Pen -- Soft Corals - Order Alcyonacea -- 2.21 Red Berry Soft Coral -- 2.22 Pale Berry Soft Coral -- 2.23 Pale Soft Coral -- 2.24 White Disc Soft Coral -- Sea Fans (Gorgonian Corals) - Order Gorgonacea -- 2.25 Dwarf Red Sea Fan (Gorgonian Coral) -- 2.26 Pink Sea Fan (Gorgonian Coral) -- 2.27 Pink Candelabrum Coral -- Cup Corals, Club Anemones, Zoanthids, Anemones - Subclass Zoantharia -- Cup Corals (Stony corals) - Order Scleractinia -- 2.28 Orange Cup Coral -- 2.29 Round Tan Cup Coral -- 2.30 Oval Tan Cup Coral -- Corallimorphs (Club Anemones) - Order Corallimorpharia -- 2.31 Strawberry Anemone -- Zoanthids - Order Zoanthidea -- 2.32 Orange Zoanthids -- Anemones - Order Actiniaria -- 2.33 Short Plumose Anemone -- 2.34 Giant Plumose Anemone -- 2.35 Brooding Anemone -- 2.36 Giant Green Anemone -- 2.37 Pink-Tipped Green Anemone -- 2.38 Buried Green Anemone -- 2.39 Painted Anemone -- 2.40 Fish-Eating Anemone. ; 2.41 Stubby Buried Anemone -- 2.42 Columbia Sand Anemone -- 2.43 White-Spotted Anemone -- 2.44 Pale Snakelock Anemone -- 2.45 Crimson Anemone -- 2.46 Swimming Anemone -- 2.47 Spotted Swimming Anemone -- Tube-dwelling Anemones - Order Ceriantharia -- 2.48 Tube-Dwelling Anemone -- Jellyfish -- Class Hydrozoa -- "Small" Jellyfish Hydromedusae - Order Siphonophora -- 2.49 Clinging Jellyfish -- 2.50 By-the-Wind-Sailor Jellyfish -- 2.51 Water Jellyfish -- 2.52 Red-Eye Medusa -- Large "True" Jellyfish - Class Scyphozoa -- Order Semaeostomeae -- 2.53 Moon Jellyfish -- 2.54 Lion's Mane Jellyfish -- 2.55 Fried Egg Jellyfish -- Stalked Jellyfish or Medusa - Order Stauromedusae -- 2.56 Bushy Stalked Medusa -- 2.57 Striped Stalked Medusa -- 2.58 Herring-Bone Stalked Medusa -- 2.59 Red and White Stalked Medusa -- Phylum Ctenophora Comb jellies (sea combs, sea gooseberries, ctenophores) -- Order Cydippida -- 2.60 Cat's Eye Comb Jelly -- Order Beroida -- 2.61 Lobed Comb Jelly -- Worms -- Phylum Annelida Segmented Worms -- Class Polychaeta -- Prey-Predators -- Reproduction -- Sedentary Segmented Worms -- 3.1 Fringed Tube Worms -- 3.2 Coralline Fringed Tube Worm -- 3.3 Cemented Tube Worm -- 3.4 Northern Feather Duster Worm -- 3.5 Red Trumpet Calcareous Tube Worm -- 3.6 Pearl-Topped Calcareous Tube Worm -- 3.7 White Crown Calcareous Tube Worm -- 3.8 Orange Tube Worm -- 3.9 Fibre-Tube Worm -- 3.10 Slime Tube Worm -- 3.11 Pacific Lugworm -- 3.12 Sand-Binding Tube Worm -- 3.13 Sea Mouse (Worm) -- Free-Swimming Segmented Worms -- 3.14 Clam Worm -- 3.15 Blood Worm -- 3.16 Bat Star Worm -- Scale Worms -- 3.17 Eighteen-Scaled Worm -- 3.18 Ruffled Scale Worm -- 3.19 Red Scale Worm -- Phylum Nemertea Ribbon Worms -- 3.20 Green And Yellow Ribbon Worm -- 3.21 Purple-Backed Ribbon Worm -- 3.22 Six-Lined Ribbon Worm -- 3.23 Primitive Ribbon Worm -- 3.24 White-Lined Ribbon Worm. ; Phylum Platyhelminthes Flatworms -- Polyclad Flatworms -- 3.25 Bivalve Flatworm -- 3.26 Giant Flatworm -- Moss Animals -- Phylum Bryozoa (Ectoprocta) -- Physical Features -- Prey-Predators -- Reproduction -- Class Stenolaemata -- Order Cyclostomatida -- 4.1 White Branching Bryozoan -- 4.2 Northern Staghorn Bryozoan -- 4.3 Purple Encrusting Bryozoan -- 4.4 Yellow Encrusting Bryozoan -- Class Gymnolaemata -- Soft-bodied bryozoans - Order Ctenostomatida -- 4.5 Smooth Leather Bryozoan -- Encrusting, erect and branching bryozoans - Order Cheilostomatida -- 4.6 Kelp Lacy Bryozoan -- 4.7 Stick Bryozoan -- 4.8 Spiral Bryozoan -- 4.9 Orange Fluted Bryozoan -- 4.10 Yellow Fluted Bryozoan -- 4.11 Orange Crust Bryozoan -- 4.12 Lacy Bryozoan -- 4.13 Rusty Bryozoan -- 4.14 Coral Tube Bryozoan -- Crabs, Shrimp, Isopods, Amphipods, Barnacles -- Phylum Arthropoda -- Locomotion -- Prey-Predators -- Reproduction -- Crabs, krill, shrimp, isopods, amphipods and others - Class Malacostraca -- Shrimp and Crabs - Order Decapoda -- Mud Shrimp, Ghost Shrimp - Infraorder Thassinidea -- 5.1 Blue Mud Shrimp -- 5.2 Bay Ghost Shrimp -- Hermit Crabs, King Crabs, Lithodid Crabs, Galatheid Crabs, Porcelain Crabs - Infraorder Anomura -- 5.3 Orange Hermit Crab -- 5.4 Widehand Hermit Crab -- 5.5 Blackeyed Hermit -- 5.6 Bering Hermit Crab -- 5.7 Gold Ring Hermit Crab -- 5.8 Hairy Hermit Crab -- 5.9 Grainy-Hand Hermit Crab -- 5.10 Greenmark Hermit Crab -- 5.11 Alaskan Hermit Crab -- 5.12 Steven's Hermit Crab -- Lithodid Crabs -- 5.13 Red Fur Crab -- 5.14 Umbrella Crab -- 5.15 Butterfly Crab -- 5.16 Hairy Lithodid -- 5.17 Brown Box Crab -- 5.18 Puget Sound King Crab -- 5.19 Granular Claw Crab -- 5.20 Heart Crab -- 5.21 Scaly Lithodid -- 5.22 Golf-Ball Crab -- Galatheid Crabs -- 5.23 Squat Lobster -- Porcelain Crabs -- 5.24 Hairy Flat-Top Porcelain Crab -- 5.25 Hairy Porcelain Crab. ; 5.26 Thickclaw Porcelain Crab -- "True Crabs" - Infraorder Brachyura -- Shore Crabs -- 5.27 "Purple" Shore Crab -- 5.28 Hairy Green Shore Crab -- 5.29 Black-Clawed Shore Crab -- Spider Crabs, Decorator Crabs, Kelp Crabs -- 5.30 Tanner Crab -- 5.31 Longhorn Decorator Crab -- 5.32 Slender Decorator Crab -- 5.33 Slender Kelp Crab -- 5.34 Northern Kelp Crab -- 5.35 Cryptic Kelp Crab -- 5.36 Sharp-Nosed Crab -- Bristly Crabs -- 5.37 Helmet Crab -- Cancer Crabs -- 5.38 Dungeness Crab -- 5.39 Red Rock Crab -- 5.40 Slender Cancer Crab -- 5.41 Spot-Bellied Cancer Crab -- 5.42 Hairy Cancer Crab -- Shrimp - Infraorder Caridea -- Edible/Commercial Shrimp -- 5.43 Spiny Pink Shrimp -- 5.44 Coonstripe Shrimp -- 5.45 Humpback Shrimp -- 5.46 Spot Prawn -- 5.47 Sidestripe Shrimp -- Non-Commercial Shrimp -- 5.48 Sitka Shrimp -- 5.49 Stout Coastal Shrimp -- 5.50 Broken-Back Shrimp -- 5.51 Candy Stripe Shrimp -- 5.52 Horned Shrimp -- Isopods - Order Isopoda -- 5.53 Rockweed Isopod -- Amphipods - Order Amphipoda -- 5.54 Pale Beach Hopper -- 5.55 Skeleton Shrimp -- 5.56 Red Urchin Sediment Whip Amphipod -- 5.57 Black and White Amphipod -- Class Thecostraca -- Barnacles - Infraclass Cirripedia -- 5.58 Giant Barnacle -- 5.59 Acorn Barnacle -- 5.60 Little Brown Barnacle -- 5.61 Thatched Barnacle -- 5.62 Crenate Barnacle -- 5.63 Hydrocoral Barnacle -- 5.64 Shell Barnacle -- 5.65 Goose Barnacle -- 5.66 Pelagic Goose Barnacle -- Bivalves, Snails, Limpets, Nudibranchs, Octopus, Squid, Chitons, Lampshells -- Phylum Mollusca -- Locomotion -- Prey-Predators -- Reproduction -- Class Bivalvia -- Mussels -- 6.1 Pacific Blue Mussel -- 6.2 California Mussel -- 6.3 Northern Horsemussel -- 6.4 Straight (Upright) Horsemussel -- Oysters -- 6.5 Pacific Oyster -- 6.6 Olympia Oyster -- Jingle/Rock Oysters, or False-Jingles -- 6.7 Green False-Jingle -- Scallops -- 6.8 Rock Scallop. ; 6.9 Smooth Pink Scallop.
• Sommario/riassunto: One of the best-selling concise guidebooks to marine life of the Pacific Northwest, now revised and updated.
• Titolo autorizzato: Whelks to whales
• ISBN: 1-55017-984-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822888503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II