The example we will use here is the name of humans. The genus name is always capitalized. The trivial name is never capitalized, even if derived from a proper name. Both are always italicized or underlined to set them apart in other text. This provides a bibliographic trail to search for the original reference.
Organisms are indicative of the substrate they inhabit.
On St. Catherines we will see and collect faunas from the marsh, from the beach, and from the subtidal bottom. Although these animals live in discreet habitats, their shells are rapidly mixed and occur together on the beaches due to the dynamics of the physical environment. Part of the fun of collecting is to try to identify such out of place occurrences. As this page develops, we will attempt to differentiate specific nearshore habitats and their associated invertebrates on St. Catherines and the Georgia coastline. Intertidal Beach Habitat 2.