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sealord > At low water I photographed these withdrawn plumose anemones, Metridium senile, located in a recess of a wall in the Gouliot caves, Sark. These anemones are found at the base of the cave wall whereas the beadlet anemones, Actinia equina, are found higher up the wall as they are on the open seashore. These plumose anemones probably don't tolerate as well as the beadlet anemones the fast water flow through the cave system so they are found only in recesses and depressions in the cave wall. Photographed on 12 September 2007. File No. 120907 896 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > A daisy anemone, Cereus pedunculatus, displays its oral disc and tentacles above the sand in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. The white disc of a foraminifera, Fissurina orbignyana, lies on the oral disc of the sea anemone. Photographed on the 17 February 2007 File No. 170207 14-878 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > The daisy anemone, Cereus pendunculatus, grows attached to rock buried in the gravel. Daisy anemones with their psychedelic tentacle pattern are difficult to spot growing out of the substrate. They are very common in the bottom of the channel that extends from the Queen Elizabeth 2 marina into Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. Photographed on 5 January 2007. File No. 050107 5353 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > A dahlia anemone, Urticina felina, with a diameter of 5 to 6 cm growing on the side of the rectangular metal float of a pontoon attached to the fish quay in St. Peter Port harbour, Guernsey. This photograph was taken with a Canon S80 digital camera with an underwater housing. Fanworms grow down from the base of the pontoon float. The dahlia anemone is uncommon in Guernsey rock pools on the seashore but the pontoon attached to the fish quay has large numbers of them. Unfortunately, the pontoon is cleaned every four or five years so they will be removed but presumably they will recolonise the cleaned pontoon in time. Photographed on 19 December 2006 File No. 191206 4905 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This anemone, Calliactis parasitica, lives in association with a hermit crab, Pagurus bernhardus, that occupies the shell of a common whelk, Buccinum undatum. Sometimes the anemone will attach to an empty whelk shell or a rock but normally it is carried around on the whelk shell by the hermit crab and feeds on the bits of food discarded by the hermit crab. The sea anemone probably provides the hermit crab with some protection from fish predation. This sea anemone was given to me to photograph by Guernsey commercial fisherman Phil Ryan. The sea anemone, which was attached to a whelk shell, was caught up in one of his gill nets. Photographed on the 20 November 2004. The molluscs in the foreground, below the column of the anemone, are American slipper limpets, Crepidula fornicata. This species is native to the eastern seaboard of the USA. It was introduced to European waters in 1887 with a shipment of oysters. File No. 201104 31-756 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > The fleshy plumose anemone Metridium senile releasing eggs into the water of the Queen Elizabeth 2 marina, St. Peter Port, Guernsey. Photographed on 5 June 2006 File No. 050606 900 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
At low water I photographed these withdrawn plumose anemones, Metridium senile, located in a recess of a wall in the Gouliot caves, Sark. These anemones are found at the base of the cave wall whereas the beadlet anemones, Actinia equina, are found higher up the wall as they are on the open seashore. These plumose anemones probably don't tolerate as well as the beadlet anemones the fast water flow through the cave system so they are found only in recesses and depressions in the cave wall.

Photographed on 12 September 2007.
File No. 120907 896
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > At low water I photographed these withdrawn plumose anemones, Metridium senile, located in a recess of a wall in the Gouliot caves, Sark. These anemones are found at the base of the cave wall whereas the beadlet anemones, Actinia equina, are found higher up the wall as they are on the open seashore. These plumose anemones probably don't tolerate as well as the beadlet anemones the fast water flow through the cave system so they are found only in recesses and depressions in the cave wall. Photographed on 12 September 2007. File No. 120907 896 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
At low water I photographed these withdrawn plumose anemones, Metridium senile, located in a recess of a wall in the Gouliot caves, Sark. These anemones are found at the base of the cave wall whereas the beadlet anemones, Actinia equina, are found higher up the wall as they are on the open seashore. These plumose anemones probably don't tolerate as well as the beadlet anemones the fast water flow through the cave system so they are found only in recesses and depressions in the cave wall.

Photographed on 12 September 2007.
File No. 120907 896
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
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