Spring Is Here! Let’s Head for the Beach!

Here is all you need: Ø Good eyes Ø Rubber boots Ø Layers of warm clothes Ø Intertidal Biodiversity Checklist & pencil What will make this more FUN? Ø Beachcomber’s Guide (Conrad & Carmen Field) Ø Kachemak Bay Macroalgae Card (included) Ø Rain pants to keep you dry Ø Small bucket Ø Aquarium net Sharing your findings: Ø Check off each different marine invertebrate, fish, and alga that you observe on your checklist and tally your total species. Ø Take a photo of your checklist/tally and/or your favorite photos taken during your intertidal scavenger hunt and post them in the comment section of the STEAM post on our Facebook page! If you need to, email your photo to [email protected] and she can post it for you!

Check your tide book for the best low-tides for intertidal exploration, Post a photo of your such as: intertidal scavenger hunt Ø Be sure to get to the beach one hour before low tide to explore! on our SVT Community Ø Wednesday 4/8: (9:21 a.m.) -4.1’ Services Facebook page Ø Thursday 4/9: (10:12 a.m.) -4.9’ & get your name entered Ø Friday 4/10: (10:56 a.m.) -4.7’ into a drawing for a $10 Amazon gift card! #STEAMchallenge NAME______LOCATION______DATE______

Poriferans Mollusks Mollusks Sponges Chitons Snails ❑ Lined Chiton ❑ Hairy Triton Tonicella lineata Fusitriton oregonensis ❑ Purple Encrusting Sponge ❑ Black Katy Chiton ❑ Sitka Periwinkle Snail Haliclona permollis Katharina tunicata Littorina sitkana ❑ Breadcrumb Sponge ❑ Hairy/Mossy Chiton ❑ Puppet Margarite Halichondria panicea Mopalia ciliata Margarites pupillus ❑ Tiger Chiton ❑ Channeled Dogwinkle ❑ Hermit Crab Sponge Tonicella insignis Nucella canaliculata Suberites subera ❑ Brick Chiton ❑ Frilled Dogwinkle Lepidozona mertensii Nucella lamellose Cnidarians ❑ Ridged Whelk Limpets Nuptunea lyrata Anemones ❑ Whitecap Limpet ❑ Moon Snail ❑ Christmas Anemone Acmacea mitra Crytonatica aleutica Urticina grebelni ❑ Plate limpet ❑ Hairy Cancellate Snail ❑ Burrowing Anemone Tectura scutum Trichotropis cancellata ❑ Blue Topsnail Anthopleura artemisia ❑ Shield Limpet Calliostoma ligatum ❑ Frilled Anemone Lottia pelta Metridium senile Nudibranchs ❑ Brooding Anemone Cephalopod Epiactus prolifera ❑ Opalescent Nudibranch ❑ Pacific Octopus ❑ Scarlet anemone Hermissenda crassicornis Octopus dofleini ❑ Barnacle Nudibranch Sea Jellies/Hydroid Onchidoris bilamellata ❑ Monterey sea lemon Archidoris montereyensis Echinoderms ❑ Compass Jelly ❑ Maned/Shaggy Mouse Nudibranch Sea Stars Chrysaora melanogaster Aeolidia papillosa ❑ Lion’s Mane Bivalves ❑ Blood Star Cyanea capillata ❑ Pink Scallop Henricia leviuscula ❑ Moon Jelly Chlamys rubida ❑ True Star Aurelia aurita ❑ Pacific Blue Mussel Evasterias troschelli ❑ Many-ribbed Hydromedusa Mytilus trossulus ❑ Six-rayed Star Aequorea sp. ❑ Pacific Rock Oyster Leptasterias hexactis ❑ Sea Spruce Pododesmus macroschima ❑ Sun Star Abietinaria sp. ❑ Butter Clam Solaster stimpsoni Saxidomus giganteus ❑ Red-banded Star ❑ Steamer Clam Orthasterias koehleri Protothaca staminea ❑ Leather Star Brachiopod ❑ Pink Baltic Macoma Dermasterias imbricata Lampshell Macoma balthica ❑ Daisy Brittle Star ❑ Nutall Cockle Ophiolis aculenta ❑ Common Lampshell Clinocardium nutallii ❑ Notched Brittle Star Terebratalia transversa ❑ Razor Clam Ophiura sarsi Siliqua patula Arthropods Arthropods Brown algae Barnacles Shrimp ❑ Bull Kelp ❑ Thatched Barnacle ❑ Broken-back Shrimp Nerocystis luetkeana ❑ Ribbon kelp Semibalanus cariosus Heptocarpus sp. Alaria marginata ❑ Acorn barnacle ❑ Sand Shrimp ❑ Split kelp Balanus glandula Crangon sp. Saccharina groenlandica ❑ Sugar Kelp Amphipods/Isopods Saccharina latissimi Annelids ❑ Shotgun Kelp Segmented/Flat Agarum clathratum ❑ Small Beach Hopper ❑ Clam Worm ❑ Rockweed/Popweed Orchestia traskiana Nereis vexillosa Fucus distichus ❑ Skeleton Shrimp ❑ Iridescent Sandworm ❑ Witches Hair Caprella alaskana Nephtys caeca Desmatestia aculeata ❑ Rockweed Isopod ❑ Split-branch Feather Duster ❑ Soda Straws Peridotea wosnesenski Schizobranchia insignis Scytosiphon lomentaria ❑ Pillbug Isopod ❑ Free-living scale worm Gnorimospaeroma sp. Harmothoe imbricata Green Algae ❑ Cone Worm ❑ Green Sea Lettuce Crabs Pectinaria granulata Ulva lactuca ❑ Pink Polychaete ❑ Stringy Sea Lettuce Glyceridae capitana Ulva linza ❑ Sabellid Carpet Worm ❑ Orange Hermit Crab ❑ Sea Cellophane ❑ Terbellid Sphaghetti Worm Monostroma grevillea Ellassochirus gilli ❑ Calcareous Tube Worm ❑ ❑ Arctic Sea Moss Widehand hermit crab Serpula vermicularis Ellassochirus tenuimanus Arcosiphonia sp. ❑ Spiral Tube Worm ❑ Hairy hermit crab Spirorbis spirillum Red Algae Pagurus hirsutiusculus ❑ Leafy flatworm ❑ Stiff Red Ribbon ❑ Bering Hermit Crab Kaburakia excelsa Palmaria hecatensis Pagurus beringanus ❑ Frilly Red Ribbon ❑ Carapace crab Palmaria callophyloides Haplogaster mertensii Nermeateans ❑ Nori ❑ Umbrella crab Ribbon Worms Porphyra sp. Cryptolithodes stichensis ❑ Green Ribbon Worm ❑ Red Eyelet Silk ❑ Butterfly crab Emplectonema gracile Sparlingia pertusa Cryptolithodes typicus ❑ Long Red Ribbon Worm ❑ Cup and Saucer ❑ Heart crab Tubulanus polymorphus Constantinea sublifera Phyllolithodes papillosus ❑ Red Sea Sac ❑ Helmet crab Tunicate Halosaccion glandiforme Telmessus cheiragonus ❑ Sea Peach ❑ Sea Brush Odonthalia floccosa ❑ Black-clawed Crab Halocynthia aurantium ❑ Black Tassel Cancer oregonensis Pterosiphonia bipinnata ❑ Dungeness Crab ❑ Pink Coralline Crust Cancer majister Fish ❑ Decorator Crab ❑ Tidepool Sculpin Oregonia gracilis ❑ Gunnel ❑ Graceful Kelp Crab ❑ Prickleback Pugettia graclis ❑ Snailfish Compiled by T. Spurkland 4/1/2020 Kachemak Bay Macroalgae Brown Algae – Phylum Ochrophyta

Sporophylls

Sugar kelp Saccharina Split kelp Saccharina Shotgun Kelp Agarum Ribbon kelp Alaria marginata. latissima. Up to 3.5 m long; groenlandica. Up to 2 m long; clathratum. Up to 1 m long; Up to 3 m long; stipe with 20- short stipe; branched holdfast; long stipe; branched holdfast; medium length stipe; branched 40 elliptical leafy sporophylls; med-thin ruffled blade often thick blade often splits into 2-3 holdfast; stiff blade riddled with med-thin blade with solid with rows of bumps; edible; segments; edible; low intertidal holes; not edible; low intertidal midrib (ribbon); edible; low intertidal to subtidal. to subtidal. to subtidal. mid to low intertidal.

Rockweed or popweed. Fucus distichus. Up to 50 cm tall; discoidal holdfast; flattened, Soda straws Scytosiphon strap-like blades with midribs; lomentaria. Up to 50 cm tall; branches into 2 equal parts; discoidal holdfast; unbranched Witch’s hair distinctive air bladders at tips Desmarestia aculeata. Bull kelp Nereocystis tubes with constrictions; grows at maturity; edible; high to low Up to 2 m tall; discoidal luetkeana. Canopy forming in clusters; mid to low intertidal. intertidal. holdfast; branches kelp; stipe 10-36 m long in an alternate pattern; ending in a gas-filled float low intertidal to subtidal. from which up to 10 m long blades develop; branched Green Algae – Phylum Chlorophyta holdfast; edible; low intertidal to subtidal.

Ulva linza. Up 45 cm Arctic sea moss Sea cellophane tall; tubular at base Sea lettuce. Ulva lactuca. Acrosiphonia sp. Up to 6 cm Monostroma grevillei. Up to but flattened above; Up to 30 cm tall; green tall; forms dark green mats; 20 cm tall; starts out as a long, narrow, ruffled blade of 2 cell layers; often wrings out like a sponge; sac and splits as it matures; blades 2 cell layers with small holes; edible; mid to low intertidal. one cell layer thick; low thick; mid to low mid to low intertidal. intertidal to subtidal intertidal. Red Algae - Phylum Rhodophyta

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Stiff red ribbon Palmaria Frilly red ribbon Palmaria hecatensis. 20 cm tall; discoidal callophyloides.10-15 cm tall; Cup and saucer Constantinea sublifera. holdfast; thallus is leathery; blades discoidal holdfast; crisp, shiny Up to 20 cm tall; blades saucer-shaped; are strap-like or with 1 or 2 lobes thallus; highly branched; very attach in middle to lower side to a with rounded tips; edible; mid pretty; mid to low intertidal. branched stipe; new blades form a cup to low intertidal. within the saucer in September; veins on undersurface; low intertidal to subtidal.

Pink coralline rock crust. Red eyelet silk Sparlingia pertusa. Up to 60 cm tall; Extensive, thin, hard, pink crusts of discoidal holdfast; somewhat crisp; blade is perforated calcium carbonate; smooth surface; with small holes, tapering to stipe; low intertidal to high intertidal to subtidal. subtidal.

Nori Porphyra sp.. Up to 20 cm tall; sheet- like thallus; one cell thick; edible; high to mid intertidal.

Sea brush Odonthalia floccosa. Up to 40 cm tall; discoidal Coral seaweed Corallina sp.. 3 or more holdfast; profuse alternate arranged branches; clusters of short cm tall; often form dense mats; branchlets at tips of branches; low intertidal. calcareous; feather-like branches; profuse opposite branches; mid to low intertidal.

Red sea sac Halosaccion glandiforme. Up to 8 cm tall; small discoidal holdfast; sacs taper to a short stipe; tiny pores allow seawater inside the sacs; grows in clumps; mid to low Black tassel Pterosiphonia bipinnata. Up to 1222 cm; very Sea fern Neoptilota asplenioides. Up to intertidal. fine profuse branches; herbivores like to graze on it; forms 30 cm tall; fern-like; coarsely branched; mats when tide is out; mid to low intertidal. bright red; branches flattened; low intertidal to upper subtidal. Adapted by T. Spurkland from Seaweeds of Alaska (2010) by M. Lindeberg and S. Lindstrom