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Common Name: Eastern Oyster Drill
Location Found: In the mid-intertidal at Grimes Cove, East Boothbay, ME.
Habitat: Found on rocks in the intertidal up to 50 feet. Ranges from Nova Scotia to the northern parts of Florida.
Physical Description: It is coarse and oval shaped with a spire that is elevated. The spire is typically half the length of the shell. Usually this species has 5-6 whorls with 12 ribs or waves. It ranges in color from tan to dark brown and maxes out at around 1 inch in size.
Fun Fact: Although the oyster drill is rather small at only 1 inch, it is known to be one of the biggest threats to oyster beds as it drills a hole in the oyster shell and consumes the oyster after doing so. However, this species cannot tolerate lower salinity water, so oyster beds are often placed at the mouths of rivers where they thrive.
Reference: Martinez, Marine Life of the North Atlantic
Images show two individuals, each about 25 mm long, which were found near each other and their egg strings on the underside of a boulder in a low intertidal pool.
10 mm long. 2nd image shows as found, floating on surface of a low intertidal pool.
Common name: Northern Spring Amphipod or Scud Amphipod.
Location found: Grimes Cove, Boothbay, ME.
Habitat found: rocky intertidal tide pool.
Physical description: shrimp-like crustacean with no carapace and a laterally compressed body, with lateral swimming.
Fun fact: there are more than 9,000 amphipod species.
Reference: wikipedia
slightly bigger than quarter, greyish and brown shell; 4 or 5 whorls, 9-12 strong longitudinal ribs crossed by spiral grooves
Found as is, crawling at the bottom of a shallow, low intertidal pool.