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
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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
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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 > 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 > A male sea spider, Nymphon gracile, carrying six parcels of eggs under the abdomen.  This individual was found on the sea shore at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast on 21 March 2003.  Male sea spiders carry fertilised eggs.
File No. 36-648
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sealord > Guernsey commercial fisherman, Phil Ryan, provided me with this large Calliactis parasitica sea anemone which was attached to a whelk shell.

Photographed on 20 November 2004.
File No. 201104 29-760
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sealord > This soft coral, Alcyonium glomeratum, was growing on one of Clive Brown's crab pots, which was fishing off Guernsey's south coast. It was collected from the crab pot and photographed on 16 April 2003.
File No. 160403 2-657 
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sealord > The head of a snake pipefish, Entelurus aequoraeus, which entered a Clive Brown crab pot off the south coast of Guernsey on 17 September 2004
File No. 28-751 
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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 > 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
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
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