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hydrozoa (hydroids), scyphozoa (jellyfish), and Alcyonaria (soft corals, sea fans, & sea pens)

More images of sea anemones (actiniaria) can be seen in the Belle Greve Bay gallery at http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/3514797#133517495

Images of jewel anemones, plumose anemones and elegant anemones, Sagartia elegans, can be viewed in the QE II marina gallery at http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/3514775#102060423

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sealord > The by-the-wind sailor, Velella velella, is a colonial hydroid in the phylum cnidaria. By-the-wind sailors possess a thin, almost flat oval chitinous float with a vertical fin-like sail attached diagonally across the top of the float. Tentacles, which possess weak stinging cells, surround the central mouth underneath the float. This image is taken of the underside of the edge of the float and shows some of the tentacles that ring the mouth. This species occasionally shows up on Guernsey's west coast beaches usually during the Autumn / Fall when south-westerly winds bring them into the English Channel. Occasional we see them on Guernsey's east coast during a period of easterly wind. Photographed on the 12 December 1999. File No. 121299 33-353 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > Guernsey cnidaria > Cladonema radiatum on rock 210704 32-747 smg
sealord > Guernsey cnidaria > Alcyonium glomeratum CB pots 160403 36-656 smg
sealord > This soft coral, Alcyonium glomeratum, was growing on one of Clive Brown's crab pots, which was fishing off Guernsey's south coast. It was collected from the crab pot and photographed on 16 April 2003. File No. 160403 2-657 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > Guernsey cnidaria > Alcyonium glomeratum QE II marina 190904 24-753 smg
sealord > Guernsey cnidaria > Alcyonium glomeratum CB pots 160403 cu 3-657 smg
sealord > Guernsey cnidaria > Alcyonium glomeratum extended QE II marina 190904 22-753 smg
sealord > Pink colonies of the soft coral, Alcyonium hibernicum, growing on the side of a metal pontoon float attached to the fish quay in St. Peter Port harbour, Guernsey, Channel Islands, Great Britain. The pontoons were placed in the sea about three years ago. Species identification was made by Dr. Bernard Picton from Northern Ireland and Professor Katherine McFadden from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. Photographed with a Canon S80 digital camera with an underwater housing on 19 December 2006. File No. 191206 4979 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > After a period of warm southerly and south-westerly winds, the weather changed. Strong colder winds came from the north-east and an easterly direction. On 2 November 2006 by-the-wind sailors entered St. Peter Port harbour on Guernsey's east coast, driven in by the wind. Commercial fisherman Clive Brown called to tell me that about 25 Velella velella were washed up on the shore near his dinghy in the harbour. I went down to the Albert marina and with a discarded coke bottle I was able to collect four Velella velella by reaching out from a pontoon. This picture shows one of them which is mirrored by the water's surface. Photo taken with a Canon S80 with underwater housing. File No. 021106 4218 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
Alcyonium glomeratum CB pots 160403 cu 3-657 smg
Guernsey cnidaria > Alcyonium glomeratum CB pots 160403 cu 3-657 smg
Alcyonium glomeratum CB pots 160403 cu 3-657 smg
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Keywords: guernsey tentacles alcyonium polyps polyp soft coral guernsey marine life alcyonacea alcyoniidae british marine life alcyonaria octocorallia channel islands marine life alcyonium glomeratum
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