sealord > A monach cowrie, Trivia monacha, glides over the surface of a boulder in a 'crater rock pool' (See  http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/1984411#127980518 ) in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast.  Photographed on 4 February 2007.
File No. 040207 6052 
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sealord > This fan mussel, Atrina fragilis, was caught accidentally in 54 fathoms of water off the south-east coast of Sark in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, Channel Islands, Great Britain on 30 January 2007.  It has a shell length of 23.0 cm and a maximum shell width of 12.83 cm.  The live animal was measured with the valves closed.  The thickness of the two shells or valves is 5.04 cm.  The whole animal drained of water weighs 293 grams.  Keelworms and two colonies of dead-man's fingers, Alcyonium digitatum, grow on one of the valves. It was returned to the sea alive.
File No. 300107 5874
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sealord > A young bootlace worm, Lineus longissimus, measuring about half a metre long, travels over a rock surface in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast.  This ribbon worm, phylum nemertea, can grow in excess of 30 metres long.  It possesses ten to forty dark eyes on each side of the head.  

Photographed on 5 November 2006
File No. 1-869
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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 sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, was given to me by "Out of Blue" charter boat owner Richard Seager who landed it attached to a bass, Dicentrarchus labrax.  I photographed it in my aquarium before returning it alive to the sea.
File No. 24-774
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sealord > This sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, was photographed at the Guernsey Aquarium, which is open to the public.  It was photographed on 7 February 2005 when it was delivered to the aquarium by a recreational angler who had found it attached to a bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, that he had caught.
File No. 15-766 
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sealord > This sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, was given to me to photograph by charter boat owner Richard Seager who was fishing for bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, on his boat, Out of Blue. This lamprey was attached to a bass when it was captured.  It was photographed in my aquarium and then returned to the sea.
File No. 30-774
©RLLord
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sealord > Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast >  ormer mouth Haliotis tuberculata 32-633 smg
sealord > The posterior end of a Guernsey abalone or ormer, Haliotis tuberculata, showing the shell spiral and the mantle's green tentacles.
File No. 22-667 
©RLLord
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A monach cowrie, Trivia monacha, glides over the surface of a boulder in a 'crater rock pool' (See http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/1984411#127980518 ) in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. Photographed on 4 February 2007.
File No. 040207 6052
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > A monach cowrie, Trivia monacha, glides over the surface of a boulder in a 'crater rock pool' (See  http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/1984411#127980518 ) in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast.  Photographed on 4 February 2007.
File No. 040207 6052 
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
A monach cowrie, Trivia monacha, glides over the surface of a boulder in a 'crater rock pool' (See http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/1984411#127980518 ) in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. Photographed on 4 February 2007.
File No. 040207 6052
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
See photo in gallery

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