SEASTARS & SEA URCHINS COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME ZONE DESCRIPTION Ochre Seastar Low Can be purple, orange, or brownish Pisaster ochraceus red; 5 arms Banded Brittle star Low/ Gray to light brown with dark rings Ophionereis annulata under circling each arm rocks Purple Sea Urchin Low Purple with short spines Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Red Sea Urchin Low Red with longer spines Strongylocentrotus franciscanus Vertebrate List Fish COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME ZONE DESCRIPTION Tidepool Sculpin Low Brown to green or reddish on dorsal Oligocottus side masculosus Opaleye Girella nigricans Low Brownish green with two white dots on their back ALGAE LIST: GREEN ALGAE COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME ZONE Sea Lettuce Mid Ulva. sp. Sea Staghorn (Dead Man’s Fingers) Low Codium fragile BROWN ALGAE
SEASTARS & SEA URCHINS COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME ZONE DESCRIPTION Ochre Seastar Pisaster ochraceus Low Can be purple, orange, or brownish red; 5 arms Banded Brittle star Ophionereis annulata Low/ under rocks Gray to light brown with dark rings circling each arm Purple Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Low Purple with short spines Red Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus franciscanus Low Red with longer spines Vertebrate List Fish COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME ZONE DESCRIPTION Tidepool Sculpin Oligocottus masculosus Low Brown to green or reddish on dorsal side Opaleye Girella nigricans Low Brownish green with two white dots on their back ALGAE LIST: GREEN ALGAE COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME ZONE Sea Lettuce Ulva. sp. Mid Sea Staghorn (Dead Man’s Fingers) Codium fragile Low BROWN ALGAE
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