sealord > A close-up view of zooids of the bryozoan, Flustrellidra hispida, which was growing on the surface of the brown seaweed, serrated wrack, Fucus serratus, at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast on 1 August 2003.  Some of the zooids have extended their lophophores (bell-shaped ring of ciliated tentacles) to feed.
File No. 010803 13-682
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sealord > The ctenostomatid bryozoan Flustrellidra hispida growing on the brown seaweed, serrated wrack, Fucus serratus.  The close-up image shows the kenozooid spines and the expanded feeding lophophores.  Collected from La Valette on Guernsey's east coast on 1 August 2003.
File No. 010803 13-682 
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sealord > The small snails, Rissostomia membranacea, somehow remain attached to the leaves of eel grass, Zostera marina, even while the eel grass leaves are being pulled from one side to another by the surf and currents of the seashore.  This gastropod was found on eel grass at the southern end of Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast and photographed on 5 November 2006
File No. 051106 18-869
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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 image shows a close-up of the teeth of the jaw-less sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, which was caught attached to the flank of a bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, off Guernsey's west coast on 7 February 2005.
File No. 12-766
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sealord > Guernsey Bryozoa >  netted dog whelk Hinia reticulata egg cases 17-719 smg
sealord > Guernsey Bryozoa >  amphipod 16 smg
sealord > This image shows the eggs of the red ribbon worm, Lineus ruber, in a gelatinous tube. The tube was attached to the base of a boulder located near the top of the shore in Havelet Bay on the southern edge of St. Peter Port on Guernsey's east coast.  Individual sand grains can be seen to the right of the eggs.  The horizontal field of view is about 13 mm. The reddish pink bivalve clam on the right could be Lasaea rubra.  Photographed on 8 March 2004.
File No. 7-721
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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
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A close-up view of zooids of the bryozoan, Flustrellidra hispida, which was growing on the surface of the brown seaweed, serrated wrack, Fucus serratus, at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast on 1 August 2003. Some of the zooids have extended their lophophores (bell-shaped ring of ciliated tentacles) to feed.
File No. 010803 13-682
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > A close-up view of zooids of the bryozoan, Flustrellidra hispida, which was growing on the surface of the brown seaweed, serrated wrack, Fucus serratus, at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast on 1 August 2003.  Some of the zooids have extended their lophophores (bell-shaped ring of ciliated tentacles) to feed.
File No. 010803 13-682
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
A close-up view of zooids of the bryozoan, Flustrellidra hispida, which was growing on the surface of the brown seaweed, serrated wrack, Fucus serratus, at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast on 1 August 2003. Some of the zooids have extended their lophophores (bell-shaped ring of ciliated tentacles) to feed.
File No. 010803 13-682
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
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