Carpinteria Salt Marsh

Food Chain

Buteo lineatus
(Red-shouldered Hawk)

Tringa semipalmata


Mytilus galloprovincialis


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Animalia Plantae
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    • Animalia

    Mammalia (mammals)
    Cymatogaster aggregata (Shiner)
    Engraulis mordax (Californian anchoveta)
    Fundulus parvipinnis (California killifish)
    Gasterosteus aculeatus (Alaskan stickleback)
    Gillichthys mirabilis (Longjaw mudsucker)
    Girella nigricans (Rudderfish)
    Heterostichus rostratus (Giant kelpfish)
    Hypsoblennius gentilis (Bay blenny)
    Hypsopsetta guttulata (Diamond turbot)
    Ilypnus gilberti (Cheekspot goby)
    Lepidogobius lepidus (Finescale goby)
    Leptocottus armatus (Cabezon)
    Leuresthes tenuis (Grunion)
    Menticirrhus undulatus (California whiting)
    Mugil cephalus (gray mullet)
    Paralabrax clathratus (Sea bass)
    Paralabrax nebulifer (Sea bass)
    Paralichthys californicus (Halibut)
    Platichthys stellatus (Starry flounder)
    Porichthys myriaster (Specklefin midshipman)
    Procyon lotor (Raccoon)
    Quietula y-cauda (Shadow goby)
    Symphurus atricaudus (California tonguefish)
    Syngnathus leptorhynchus (slendernosed pipefish)
    Umbrina roncador (Croaker)
    Mollusca (mollusks)
    Acteocina inculta (rude barrel-bubble)
    Ameritella carpenteri (Carpenter tellin)
    Aplysia californica (California seahare)
    Bulla gouldiana (California bubble)
    Callianax biplicata (purple dwarf olive)
    Cerithideopsis californica (California hornsnail)
    Cryptomya californica (california softshell clam)
    Dosinia juvenilis (frilled venus)
    Laevicardium substriatum (Pacific eggcockle)
    Leporimetis obesa
    Leukoma staminea (Pacific littleneck)
    Macoma nasuta (bent-nose macoma)
    Mytilus galloprovincialis (Mediterranean mussel)
    Nassarius fossatus (channeled nassa)
    Neverita lewisii (Lewis's moon snail)
    Nuttallia nuttallii (mahogany clam)
    Ostrea conchaphila (Olympia oyster)
    Panopea generosa (Pacific geoduck)
    Rexithaerus secta (white-sand macoma)
    Tagelus californianus (California tagelus)
    Tresus nuttallii (Pacific gaper)
    Other
    Dendraster excentricus (Sand dollar)
    Eogammarus confervicolus
    Hypereteone lighti
    Leptuca crenulata (Mexican fiddler)
    Mustelus californicus (gray smoothhound)
    Pachygrapsus crassipes (striped shore crab)
    Platyrhinoidis triseriata (Thornback guitarfish)
    Pseudobatos productus (Shovel-nose shark)
    Ricinus fringillae (Castor-Oil Plant)
    Triakis semifasciata (Leopard shark)
    Urolophus halleri (Haller's round ray)

    Plantae

    Abronia maritima (red sand verbena)
    Abronia umbellata (pink sand verbena)
    Acacia longifolia (western yarrow)
    Acmispon glaber (California Broom)
    Acmispon maritimus (coastal bird's-foot trefoil)
    Agropogon robinsonii (carpet bentgrass)
    Amaranthus hybridus (green pigweed)
    Amaranthus powellii bouchonii (Powell's amaranth)
    Amaryllis belladonna (belladonna lily)
    Amsinckia spectabilis (woolly breeches)
    Anemopsis californica (yerba mansa)
    Anredera cordifolia (Madeira vine)
    Apium graveolens (wild celery)
    Argentina anserina egedei (Pacific Silverweed)
    Artemisia californica (Coastal Sagebrush)
    Artemisia ripicola (Mugwort)
    Arthrocaulon macrostachyum (Virginia glasswort)
    Arundo donax (giant reed)
    Asparagus officinalis (garden asparagus)
    Atriplex calotheca (Fat hen)
    Atriplex lentiformis (quailbush)
    Atriplex rosea (redscale saltbush)
    Atriplex semibaccata (Australian saltbush)
    Avena fatua (flaxgrass)
    Baccharis douglasii (Salt Marsh Baccharis)
    Baccharis salicifolia (Great Plains falsewillow)
    Bassia hyssopifolia (fivehook bassia)
    Berula erecta (cut-leaf-water-parsnip)
    Beta maritima (sea beet)
    Bolboschoenus maritimus (Prairie Bulrush)
    Brassica nigra (Black Mustard)
    Brassica rapa var. oleifera (Field Mustard)
    Bromus carinatus (mountain brome)
    Bromus catharticus (rescuegrass)
    Bromus diandrus (ripgut brome)
    Bromus hordeaceus (soft brome)
    Bromus madritensis (compact brome)
    Cakile maritima (Sea Rocket)
    Calamagrostis filiformis (rabbitfoot polypogon)
    Calystegia macrostegia (island false bindweed)
    Camissoniopsis cheiranthifolia cheiranthifolia (beach suncup)
    Cardamine oligosperma (Few-seeded Bitter-Cress)
    Carduus pycnocephalus (Italian Thistle)

    Food Chain

    Pandion haliaetus
    (Osprey)

    Mugil cephalus


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    • Ecosystem provided by Lafferty, K. D., R. F. Hechinger, J. C. Shaw, K. L. Whitney and A. M. Kuris (in press) Food webs and parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem. In Disease ecology: community structure and pathogen dynamics (eds S. Collinge and C. Ray). Oxford University Press, Oxford.