6 articles
The flat abalone is a deep, flattened grazer of Oregon and northern California reefs — the most northern-centred of California's abalones, never common and rarely seen.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The red turban snail (Chlorostoma funebralis) grazes the kelp forest's turf night and day — and when its numbers swing, whole reefs can tilt. A species profile.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Norris's top snail spends its whole life on giant kelp — a large red-brown top snail found in no habitat but the southern California kelp forest.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Lacuna vincta, the chink-shell kelp snail, lives its whole life on kelp blades — sometimes a helpful gardener, sometimes a grazer that can riddle a farm.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Calliostoma ligatum, the blue-top snail, is a small pearly topsnail that grazes living kelp blades along the Pacific coast, from blade to canopy.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Black tegula (Tegula funebralis) rules the high tide line of the Pacific coast — a decades-lived black turban snail whose grazing shapes kelp recruitment.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·