Salish Sea Intertidal Zone

These species are found throughout the intertidal zone (from the highest high tide to the lowest low tide) of the Salish Sea, also known as Puget Sound. Please add any species you find in the intertidal zone of Puget Sound and the Salish Sea. Adding details about where animals were found can ...more ↓

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Purple Shore Crab ¹
Hemigrapsus nudus

Yellow Shore Crab
Hemigrapsus oregonensis

Graceful Rock Crab
Metacarcinus gracilis

Red Rock Crab ²
Cancer productus

Northern Kelp Crab
Pugettia producta

Blackclaw Crestleg Crab ³
Lophopanopeus bellus

Grainy Hermit Crab ⁴
Pagurus granosimanus

Bering Hermit ⁵
Pagurus beringanus

Matacarcinus magister ⁶
Metacarcinus magister

Telmessus cheiragonus ⁷
Telmessus cheiragonus

Pugettia gracilis
Pugettia gracilis

Pachycheles rudis ⁸
Pachycheles rudis

Glebocarcinus oregonensis
Glebocarcinus oregonensis

Pagurus samuelis ⁹
Pagurus samuelis

Pagurus hirsutiusculus ¹⁰
Pagurus hirsutiusculus

Pandulus goniurus
Pandalus goniurus

Lissocrangon stylirostris
Lissocrangon stylirostris

Neotrypaea californiensis ¹¹
Callianassidae

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