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Nahant, MA:

Study Site:

                                
Frozen Ellen                                  view if study site                         closer view of study site                   site

          
10 meter transect line                    Where are we?

The Snail:

                               
Littorina obtusata. Image width ca. 3 cm.
Image: Sue Scott (published on the MarLIN Web site)

                             
Image Description: Collection of Littorina obtusata shells. 
 Image width ca 6 cm. Image: Sue Daly (published on the MarLIN Web site)

                            
Image Description: Littorina obtusata on seaweed.  Image width  ca. 8cm.
Image: Steve Trewhella (published on the MarLIN Web site)
                                                                                               

                   
small snail                         L. obtusata on Ascophyllum       Color morphs of Nahant, MA

Other Organisms of the Rocky Intertidal:

                             
  Ascophyllum nodosum                      Fucus vesiculosus                      Mastocarpus stellatus                      a red algae

                                   
  gastropods                                  Nucella lapillus                         Nucella egg cases                        Nucella color morphs

                             
 Green Crab, Carcinus maenus        Cancer borealis                      Stronglyocentrotus droebachiensis      Asterias forbese
 

          
Semibalanus balanoides                 Mytilus edulis

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Clark University  Worcester, MA © 2002