MARINE COMMUNITIES

Duration: 15 min

Year Published: 1942

Creator: Rutgers Films

Format: 16mm

Description: While many marine animals move about independently, they are often associated in communities. The open coast, the interidal zone where there is periodic immersion and impact of waves, tide pools, protected bays, docks and bridges, estuaries, and mud flats, harbor groups of characteristic invertebrates. In this color film a large mussel shell supports a marine community of: brachiopods, tunicates, annelids, barnacles, echinoderms, coelenterates, a hermit crab is surmounted by a dense bryozoan colony.

Complete Record: Dewey number: 591.92 Audience level: c-adult Format/cost: 16-sl-color-$60; rent $3 Distributors / rental: New Jersey State Museum; Ohio Department of Education

Metadata Source:Educational Film Guide 1946