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Image Library--Intertidal animals--Echinoderms, rock gunnel, herring gull

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Asterias vulgaris-Boreal or Northern Sea Star, note light yellow madreporite
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Asterias forbesii-Common Sea Star, note orange madreporite
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Asterias forbesii feeding on blue mussels and barnacles
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Asterias spp. ventral view of feeding on a blue mussel, note gelatinous stomach encasing mussel shell
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Asterias vulgaris exhibiting regeneration ability with the regrowth of 3 of its arms
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Henricia spp-Blood Star with a tortoise shell limpet
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Henricia spp.-close up view
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Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis-Green Sea Urchin, note outstretched tube feet
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Ventral view of green sea urchin, note centrally located mouth
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Green sea urchin camoflauging with seaweed in a tide pool
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Pholis gunnellus-rock gunnel is eel-like but has fins like fish
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A group of herring gulls
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Larus argentatus-herring gull, the most common of sea gulls seen both at the shore and inland

 

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