Seashore Animals of the Pacific Coast Author:Johnson In this book, the authors have provided the amateur observer and collector with an accurate guide to the invertebrate seashore animals of the West Coast. After a brief introductory section suggesting useful equipment and explaining scientific nomenclature, the authors describe in detail well over 500 species and subspecies of eleven phyla. — Amon... more »g the major forms of life which the authors describe fully are sponges, hydroids, jellyfish, sea anomones, corals, marine worms of various sorts, bryozoa, starfish, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, sea squirts, and many kinds of crustaceans, both shellfish and the mobile squids and octopuses. So wide is this book's coverage that it includes practically every form of shore life you are likely to find, from Mexico up to Alaska.« less