This year marks the 50th year of training Volunteer Naturalists at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve. It was a long and often difficult journey to save the tidepools from human destruction, but we’ve made great strides and 50 years later we are now a Marine Protected Area. The Need for Protection In…
By Dr. Tom Niesen The creature featured today is Berthella californica, the California Berthella or the California Side-gilled sea slug. A specimen was recently observed at FMR in a midtidal tide pool by Tom Ciotti, Board member of The Friends of Fitzgerald Marine Reserve. Berthella spp. are easily mistaken for…
by Robin Agarwal Originally published in the October 2019 Edition of Between the Tides Looking like a fanciful Pokémon creature made out of pink, blue and yellow-striped candy corn, Babakina festiva (Roller, 1973) is one of California’s more infrequently-seen nudibranchs and an even more infrequent visitor to the northern half…