intertidal

Glenner wonders if any barnacles in crowded, intertidal environments might also be capable of movement.

Up to a dozen robomussels were glued next to live mussels on rocks in the intertidal zone.

Because some chemicals in Marib Light—the oil on board the Safer—are water soluble, a spill would probably affect intertidal and deep-sea corals too.

With the rats gone, “we saw these very swift rebounds of the bird populations, and a very swift response to that in the intertidal, with our grazers disappearing and our kelp numbers growing very rapidly,” says Kurle.

The periwinkle is a small marine snail commonly found in coastal, intertidal areas of the northeastern United States and Maritime Provinces of Canada.

Dimly I could see the intertidal creatures darting away from my feet.

Intertidal, in-tėr-tī′dal, adj. living between low-water and high-water mark.

Limpet, lim′pet, n. a small shellfish which clings to intertidal rocks.