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Tidepool Animals and Marine Life
Part 1, Communities, kelp, anemones and seastars

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Images are from the California coast, near Mendocino and in San Mateo County, plus some aquarium jellies.

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Image 1. A tidepool along the Mendocino, CA, coast

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Image 2. A tidepool community

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Image 3. A tidepool community

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Image 4. A tidepool community

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Image 5. Kelp floating in a tidepool

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Image 6. A green sea anenome, Anthopleura xanthogrammica

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Image 7. A green sea anenome, Anthopleura xanthogrammica

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Image 8. A green sea anenome, Anthopleura xanthogrammica

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Image 9. A green sea anenome, Anthopleura xanthogrammica

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Image 10. A green sea anenome, Anthopleura xanthogrammica

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Image 11. A green sea anenome, Anthopleura xanthogrammica

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Image 12. A green sea anenome, Anthopleura xanthogrammica

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Image 13. The leather star, Dermasterias imbricata

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Image 14. The leather star, Dermasterias imbricata

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Image 15. The leather star, Dermasterias imbricata

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Image 16. The leather star, Dermasterias imbricata (a cropping of Image 15)


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Image 17. Pisaster brevispinus, the pink sea star, giant pink sea star,
or short-spined sea star

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Image 18. Pisaster brevispinus, the pink sea star, giant pink sea star,
or short-spined sea star

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Image 19. Pisaster brevispinus, the pink sea star, giant pink sea star,
or short-spined sea star

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Image 20. An unidentified sea star

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Image 21. Two unidentified sea stars

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