
Life on Intertidal Rocks
A Guide to the Marine Life of the Rocky North Atlantic Coast
Cherie Hunter Day(Author)
Wilderness Press
Published on 1. January 1987
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-0-912550-15-2 (ISBN)
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Description
Easily Identify the Living Things You Find on Intertidal Rocks!
Enjoy learning to identify marine life on the rocky north Atlantic coast with this pocket-size field guide from author Cherie Hunter Day. With this handy, easy-to-use book, you'll be able to identify a wide variety of living things in no time. And its small size makes it just right for fitting into your pocket or pack when you go for a walk along the rocky coast.
Features:
- Identifies plants and animals that live in the intertidal zone of the rocky coast, from Cape Cod north to the Bay of Fundy
- Explores and provides information about the specific and unique life that thrives in tide pools, caves, and crevices, as well as on rocks, wharves, and pilings
- Explains intertidal ecology and how these fascinating and varied creatures-sea slugs, crabs, rockweeds, star fish, and many others-survive in the harsh and ever-changing environment between the limits of high and low tide
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Edition
Ecco ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkeley
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 102 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
45 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-912550-15-2 (9780912550152)
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Cherie Hunter Day
Life on Intertidal Rocks
Identifying Marine Life of the North Atlantic Coast, Including Tidepools and the Intertidal Zones
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04/2025
2nd Edition
Nature Study Guild Publishers
€8.00
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Person
Cherie Hunter Day currently resides in Menlo Park, California, and is the author of several nature-themed books.
Content
Species List
- Blue-green algae
- Thread-like green algae
- Ribbon-like green algae
- Sheet-like green algae
- Brown algae and Rockweed
- Feathery brown algae
- Kelps
- Sheet-like red algae
- Calcified red algae
- Feathery red algae
- Sponges
- Hydroids
- Sea anemones
- Coiled tubeworms
- Scaleworms
- Ribbonworms
- Periwinkles and whelks
- Mussels
- Jingle shells and toenail shells
- Sea slugs and nudibranchs
- Bryozoans and sea-moss animals
- Acorn barnacles
- Isopods
- Amphipods
- Crabs
- Spider crabs
- Lobster
- Hermit crabs
- Sea spiders and pycnogonids
- Sea stars
- Sea cucumber
- Sea urchin
- Tunicates
- Sea squirts
- Vertebrates and fish