Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The King of Hide and Seek

Common Name: Zebra Periwinkle

Scientific Name: Littorina Lineolata

Found: Our attempt to find this interesting guy was in Grand Isle

Habitat: Salt Water

Bob

 Common Name: Shoal Flounder

Scientific Name: Syacium Gunteri

Found: Fourchon
Habitat: Salt Water Marshes 
















And this is his close cousin :) 

Swamp Maple aka Red Maple

Common Name: Swamp Maple or The Red Maple

Scientific Name: Acer Rubrum

Found: Manshack

Habitat: Fresh Water











Cattails

Common Name: Cattail

Scientific Name: Typha spp. L

Found: City Park and Big Branch Trips 

Habitat: Fresh or Intermediate Marsh 

Duck Weed

Common Name: Duck Weed

Scientific Name: Lemna Minor

Found: Manshack

Habitat: Fresh or Intermediate Marsh 

Alligator Weed

Common Name: Alligator Weed

Scientific Name: Alternanthera Philoxeroides

Found: Manshack

Habitat: Fresh Water 

Mr. Cuddles

Common Name: American Alligator

Scientific Name: Alligator Mississippiensis

Found: Manshack

Habitat: Fresh Water

Elephantsear




Common Name: Elephantsear

Scientific Name: Colocssia Antiquorum

Found: Manshack

Habitat: Fresh Water Marshes 

Saw Grass

Common Name: Saw Grass

Scientific Name: Cladium Jamaicense

Found: Big Branch 

Habitat: Fresh or Intermediate 

Luna

Common Name: Moon Snail 

Scientific Name: Polinices Duplicatus

Found: Grand Isle / On the beach 

Habitat: Salt Water 

Bull-Tounge



Common Name: Bull-Tounge

Scientific Name: Sagittaria Lancifolia

Found: Manshack

Habitat: Fresh Water 

Baldcypress



Common Name: Baldcypress

Scientific Name: Taxodium Distichum

Found: Manshack

Habitat: Fresh Water Marsh 

Glasswort


Common Name: Glasswork

Scientific Name: Salicornia Eurpoea

Found: Grand Isle

Habitat: Salt Marsh / Swamp



Rattle Boxes







Common Name: Rattle Boxes

Scientific Name: Sesbania Drummondii

Found: City Park

Habitat: Fresh Water

ROCKO

Common Name: Brown Pelican 

Scientific Name: Pelecanus Occidentails

Found: Grand Isle

Habitat: Salt Water Areas 

Nemo

Common Name: Oyster Drill

Scientific Name: Thais Haemastoma

Found: Grand Isle /On the beach/ Gulf side

Habitat: Salt Water

Yellow Foxtail


Common Name: Yellow Foxtail

Scientific Name: Setaria Glauca

Found: City Park

Habitat: Fresh Water

Dwarf Palmetto


Common Name:  Dwarf Palmetto

Scientific Name: Sabal Minor 

Found: Manshack 

Habitat: Fresh 

Mr. T

Common Name: Diamondback Terrapin 

Scientific Name: Terrapin Pileata

Found: Bayou Savage

Habitat: Salt or Intermediate Habitats 

Salt Grass

Common Name: Salt Grass

Scientific Name: Distichlis Spicata

Found: Grand Isle

Habitat: Brackish 

Zeek

Common Name: Pogy

Scientific Name: Brevoorita Patronus

Found: Bayou Savage

Habitat: Intermediate 

Fluffy

Common Name: Alligator Snapping Turtle

Scientific Name : Macroclemys Temminickii

Found: Manshack

Habitat: Fresh Water 

Lucy Lou

Common Name: Gulf Killifish

Scientific Name: Fundulus Grandis

Found: Fourchon 

Habitat: Intermediate 

Teddy

Common Name: Green Tree Frog

Common Name: Hyla Cinerea

Found: Manshack

Habitat: Fresh Water Swamp/ Marsh

"Vegitation"


Common Name:

Scientific Name:

Found:

Habitat:

Chip the Chipper Chirper

Common Name: Redwing Blackbird 

Scientific Name: Agelaius Phoeniceus

Found: Lumcon / Fourchon

Habitat: Salt Water Marshes/ Swamps

Iris

Common Name: Iris

Scientific Name: Iris Viginica

Found: Manshack

Habitat:Fresh Water

Sedges Have Edges :)

Common Name: Sedges 

Scientific Name:

Found: Grand Isle 

Habitat: Salt 
I WASNT EXACTLY SURE THAT THIS WAS A SEDGE BUT I REMEMBER YOU TELLING ME THE TERM " SEDGES HAVE EDGES" WHEN WE LOOK AT THEM SO SEDGE WAS MY BEST GUESS :)

Gooseneck Barnacles


Common Name: Gooseneck Barnacles

Scientific Name: Lepas Anatifera

Found: Grand Isle/ The Gulf

Habitat: Salt Marsh/Salt Water/ Gulf

Spongebob


Common Name : Stout Razor 

Scientific Name: 

Found: Grand Isle / Gulf

Habitat: Salt Marsh

Lance

Common Name: Sheepshead Minnow

Scientific Name: Cyprinodon Variegatus

Found: Bayou Savage

Habitate: Intermediate

Comb Jellehhh

Common Name: Comb Jellies

Scientific Name: Phylum Ctenophora

Found: Grand Isle/ The Gulf

Habitat: Salt Water/ Gulf

Acorn Barnacles

Common Name: Acorn Barnacles

Scientific Name: Chthamalus

Found: Grand Isle

Habitat : Salt Water

Mangrove

Common Name:  Black Mangrove

Scientific Name: Avicennia Germinans

Found: Grand Isle

Habitat: Brackish / Salt ( sometimes)

Duck Potato

Common Name: Duck Potato

Scientific Name: Sagittaria Latifolia L.

Found: Manshack

Habitat: Fresh or Intermediate Marsh 

Jacolbi


Common Name: Water Scorpion

Scientific Name:Heteroptera Nepidae

Found: City Park

Habitat: Fresh Water 

Team Rocket


Common Name: Tube-Building Worms 

Scientific Name: Diopatra Cupraea

Found: Grand Isle /Fourchon

Habitat: Salt Water/ Gulf

Charlie


Common Name: Souther Leopard Frog

Scientific Name: Rana Utricularia

Found: Big Branch

Habitat: Fresh Water 

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Stripped Hermit Crab

 Common Name: Stripped Hermit crab

Scientific Name: Clibanarius Vittatus

Found: Grand Isle

Habitat: Salt Water Marsh 





Gulliver the Blue Crab :)

Common Name: The Blue Crab aka "Gulliver"

Scientific Name: Callinectes Sapidus

Found: Grand Isle

Habitat: Salt Water