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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 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This prickly cockle, Acanthocardia echinata, was washed up on the beach in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast after eastly winds. The animal was collected and photographed on 13 January 2005. Identification was made by Jan Light of the British Conchology Society. File No. 130105 30-764 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > A prickly cockle, Acanthocardia echinata, showing the short siphons and siphon tentacles. The cockle was washed up on the beach in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast after a period of eastly winds. It was photographed on the surface of Belle Greve Bay sand and silt on 13 January 2005. File No. 130105 32-764 ©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
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 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > The Columbus crab, Planes minutus, was given to me by Guernsey commercial fisherman Chris Marquis on 14 December 2006. He found the crab living on a buoy covered in goose barnacles, which was floating near Herm and Sark in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. This crab was photographed hanging upside down on a cuttlebone. The crab likes to float near the water's surface and becomes distressed if it accidentally falls off its float. File No. 141206 26-871 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This Columbus crab, Planes minutus, was given to me by Guernsey commercial crab fisherman, Chris Marquis, who found it on a float covered with goose barnacles, Lepas anatifera, on 14 December 2006 near the islands of Herm and Sark in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. This individual was similarly coloured to Columbus crabs washed up on the south coast of England at the same time. This colour pattern differs to Columbus crabs that had arrived in Guernsey waters in previous years. This individual was photographed on a floating cuttlebone. File No. 141206 21-871 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This Columbus crab, Planes minutus, was given to me by Guernsey crab fisherman, Chris Marquis. He found it on a goose barnacle, Lepas anatifera, covered buoy in the Big Russell - the passage between the islands of Herm and Sark in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. I photographed the Columbus crab on a rubber Kito sandal, size 44, I found washed up on the strand-line on Guernsey's north-east coast on 23 December 2006. This scandal was covered in small goose barnacles. The crab lived in the scandal in an aquarium for a number of days before the barnacles began to die. The crab is now living on a foam mat. Columbus crabs, also known as turtle, sargassum or Gulf weed crabs, live on flotsam or under the shells of turtles in the North Atlantic and other oceans. They arrive in Guernsey waters with the prevailing currents in the later part of the year. On the same day Chris Marquis found this Columbus crab about twenty Columbus crabs were found on the south coast of England. Photo taken with a Canon S80 digital camera in an underwater housing. File No. 141206 5055 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
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
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
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
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 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
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
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
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