sealord > This image shows at low tide a small area of one of the vertical walls of the Gouliot cave system on Sark's west coast.  The walls are covered in the beadlet anemone, Actinia equina.  The Gouliot Caves were designated a RAMSAR site in April 2007.
Photographed on the 12 September 2007.
File No. 120907 893
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sealord > The daisy anemone, Cereus pendunculatus, grows attached to rock buried in the gravel.  Daisy anemones with their psychedelic tentacle pattern are difficult to see growing out of the substrate.  They are common in the bottom of the channel that extends from the entrance of the Queen Elizabeth 2 marina into Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast.
Photographed on 5 January 2007.
File No. 050107 5190
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sealord > A dahlia anemone, Urticina felina, grows on the side on a pontoon attached to the fish quay in St. Peter Port harbour, Guernsey.
Photographed on 19 December 2006.
File No. 191206 4907
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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 
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sealord > This image shows a dahlia anemone, Urticina felina, in a crevice, which has been left dry by the receding tide.  The image was taken in Belle Greve Bay with a 2.8 megapixel Olympus digital camera.  I have more attractive images of dahlia anemones taken underwater in the 'La Valette' and 'cnidaria' galleries.  As a developer called Long Port has published plans to landfill large portions of Belle Greve Bay I thought it was important to show images of some of the diverse wildlife that inhabits this productive bay on Guernsey's east coast. This image was taken on 20 April 2003.
File No. 200403 251      
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sealord > I have seen this beautiful dahlia anemone, Urticina felina, which is 8 or 9 cm in width, in a small rock pool at La Valette for several years.  During the summer the rock pool is covered with velvet horn seaweed, Codium sp., and the anemone is hidden from view.  Photographed on 31 March 2006 on the lower shore at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast. 
File No. 310306 562
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This image shows at low tide a small area of one of the vertical walls of the Gouliot cave system on Sark's west coast. The walls are covered in the beadlet anemone, Actinia equina. The Gouliot Caves were designated a RAMSAR site in April 2007.
Photographed on the 12 September 2007.
File No. 120907 893
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This image shows at low tide a small area of one of the vertical walls of the Gouliot cave system on Sark's west coast.  The walls are covered in the beadlet anemone, Actinia equina.  The Gouliot Caves were designated a RAMSAR site in April 2007.
Photographed on the 12 September 2007.
File No. 120907 893
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
This image shows at low tide a small area of one of the vertical walls of the Gouliot cave system on Sark's west coast. The walls are covered in the beadlet anemone, Actinia equina. The Gouliot Caves were designated a RAMSAR site in April 2007.
Photographed on the 12 September 2007.
File No. 120907 893
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
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