sealord > A young ormer or abalone, Haliotis tuberculata, crawling over crustose coralline algae on a boulder in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on 4 February 2007.  This animal was smaller than the legal size (8 cm shell length) to harvest ormers during the Guernsey ormer gathering season. 
File No. 040207 5958
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sealord > The aeolid sea slug, Aeolidia papilllosa, crawling along a crustose coralline algae covered boulder in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on 5 February 2007.  This individual was about 3 cm long.  It was near some green snakelocks sea anemones, which it feeds on.
File No. 050207 6355
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sealord > The grey sea slug, Aeolidia papillosa, glides over crustose coralline algae in a mid-shore tide pool in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on 5 February 2007.  This sea slug feeds on snakelocks anemones which live in the same tide pool.
File No. 050207 6357 
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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 > Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast >  Jujubinus striatus eel grass BG 051106 32-869 smg
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 > I found two Limacia clavigera nudibranchs crawling over the surface of the lower shore in Belle Greve Bay on the 15 January 2006.
File No. 21-807
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sealord > dog whelk, Nucella lapillus, egg cases attached to the wall of a crevice on the Guernsey seashore.
File No. 32-537
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sealord > Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast >  ormer mouth Haliotis tuberculata 32-633 smg
A young ormer or abalone, Haliotis tuberculata, crawling over crustose coralline algae on a boulder in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on 4 February 2007. This animal was smaller than the legal size (8 cm shell length) to harvest ormers during the Guernsey ormer gathering season.
File No. 040207 5958
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > A young ormer or abalone, Haliotis tuberculata, crawling over crustose coralline algae on a boulder in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on 4 February 2007.  This animal was smaller than the legal size (8 cm shell length) to harvest ormers during the Guernsey ormer gathering season. 
File No. 040207 5958
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
A young ormer or abalone, Haliotis tuberculata, crawling over crustose coralline algae on a boulder in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on 4 February 2007. This animal was smaller than the legal size (8 cm shell length) to harvest ormers during the Guernsey ormer gathering season.
File No. 040207 5958
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
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