sealord > This expanded beadlet anemone, Actinia equina, was in a large pebble and cobble filled pool in the Gouliot cave system on the west coast of Sark, Channel Islands, Great Britain.  The Gouliot caves that are filled with seawater at high tide run through the Gouliot headland. They are famous for their large population of closely spaced beadlet anemones.  Sark's Gouliot caves were made a RAMSAR site in April 2007.
File No. 120907 952
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sealord > Sark's Seashore Caves >  sea cucumber gamete release CB pot 040607 9-913 smg
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 > 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 dahlia anemone, Urticina felina, grows on the side on a pontoon attached to the fish quay in St. Peter Port harbour, Guernsey.
Photographed on 19 December 2006.
File No. 191206 4907
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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 > 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 
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sealord > The eye of an abalone or ormer, Haliotis tuberculata, peering out from under its shell.  The mantle is fringed with green tentacles. Guernsey ormers are a seafood delicacy.  Recreational harvesters gather them from the shore during daylight hours during the days of the new or full moon and the two days following during the first four months of the year. All ormers must have a shell length of at least 80 mm to be retained.
File no.  23-667
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sealord > Sark's Seashore Caves >  flat periwinkle yellow Littorina obtusata LEree 27-731 smg
This expanded beadlet anemone, Actinia equina, was in a large pebble and cobble filled pool in the Gouliot cave system on the west coast of Sark, Channel Islands, Great Britain. The Gouliot caves that are filled with seawater at high tide run through the Gouliot headland. They are famous for their large population of closely spaced beadlet anemones. Sark's Gouliot caves were made a RAMSAR site in April 2007.
File No. 120907 952
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This expanded beadlet anemone, Actinia equina, was in a large pebble and cobble filled pool in the Gouliot cave system on the west coast of Sark, Channel Islands, Great Britain.  The Gouliot caves that are filled with seawater at high tide run through the Gouliot headland. They are famous for their large population of closely spaced beadlet anemones.  Sark's Gouliot caves were made a RAMSAR site in April 2007.
File No. 120907 952
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
This expanded beadlet anemone, Actinia equina, was in a large pebble and cobble filled pool in the Gouliot cave system on the west coast of Sark, Channel Islands, Great Britain. The Gouliot caves that are filled with seawater at high tide run through the Gouliot headland. They are famous for their large population of closely spaced beadlet anemones. Sark's Gouliot caves were made a RAMSAR site in April 2007.
File No. 120907 952
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
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