Pescadero Conservation Alliance
Tidepools of the San Mateo County Coast
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| Observed at: Bean Hollow State Beach, 7/9/04 | |
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Body shape
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Body cylindrical, crown of plumelike radioles | |
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Color
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White body, red and white radioles | |
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Habitat
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Low intertidal zone | |
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These sedentary polychaetes live in coiled calcareous tubes that attach to hard surfaces such as rocks, bivalve shells, marina docks, and ships' hulls. Serpula columbiana, can live in estuaries as well as outer coast and can be found from low intertidal to over 100m in depth. | |
This page was created by Michelle Guzdek
on July 18, 2004
Field Biology - BIOSC 7
Professor Jean Replicon
Mission College, Santa Clara, California
Field Biology - BIOSC 7
Professor Jean Replicon
Mission College, Santa Clara, California