Each group should choose one organism from the following approved list for your presentation.  If you see more than one presentation assigned to the same topic, be sure to tell me which species you are doing so that two groups do not present on the same organism. If you’d like to do an organism not on this list, you need approval from me first!  

 

P1, P2: Chaetoceros, Skeletonema, Akashiwo sanguinea, Asterionella, Ampiphora, Odontella, Protopendium, Ceratium longipes, Sargassum, Euglena

 

P3, P4: Spartina, Prickly Pear, Spanish Moss, Live Oak, Palmetto, Cabbage Palm, Red Bay, Longleaf Pine, Peach Tree, Magnolia, Pitcher Plant, Saltwort

 

P5: Stinkhorn, Chicken of the Woods, Cronartium quericum, Psylocybe cubensis, any species of lichen (found in Georgia), Old Man’s Beard, Chlorophyllum, Hericium erinaceus

 

P6: Homo sapiens

 

P7, P8: Red Beard Sponge, Moon Jellyfish, Lion’s Mane Jellyfish, Sea Whip, Comb Jellyfish, Sea Pansy, Cannonball Jellyfish, Boring Sponge (Cliona), Haliplanella lineate

 

P9, P10: Discoporella umbellata, Cupuladria doma, Alyconidium, Bugula, Plumatella, Philodina

 

P11, P12, P13: hammerhead worm, tapeworm, pinworm, hookworm, Ascaris, Earthworm, Leech, Fanworm

 

P14, P15: Eastern oyster, ribbed mussel, moon snail, knobbed whelk, channel whelk, lightning whelk, olive snail, common Atlantic Octopus, Giant Squid

 

P16: skeleton shrimp, horseshoe crab, spider crab, stone crab, fiddler crab, ivory barnacle, sand gnat, blue crab, ghost crab, luna moth, monarch butterfly, lone-star tick

 

P17: Sand dollar, Sea urchin, Sea cucumber, Sea star (find a species that ranges in our area)

 

P18, 19: Tarpon, Look-down, Atlantic Spadefish, Pufferfish, Lemon Shark, Atlantic Sting Ray, Largemouth Bass, Red Drum, Channel Catfish, Black Tip Shark, Flounder

 

P20, 21: Hellbender, Green Treefrog, American Toad, Eastern Newt, River Frog, Gopher Frog

 

P22, P23, P24: Gopher tortoise, Eastern Indigo Snake, Sea Turtle (Pick 1 species), Five-lined Skink, Timber Rattlesnake, Bald Eagle, White Egret, Oystercatcher, Turkey Vulture, Woodstork, Screech Owl, Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Armadillo, Big Brown Bat, Bottlenose Dolphin, Right Whale, Fox Squirrel, Bobcat, White-tailed Deer