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, 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 
©RLLord
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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 
©RLLord
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sealord > Guernsey molluscs >  terebellid worm from Markwick crab pot 11-476 smg
sealord > Commercial Guernsey crab fisherman Clive Brown found this large (6 cm long) gelatinous scaleworm, Alentia gelatinosa, in one of his crab pots off the south coast of Guernsey on the 16 April 2003. 

File No. 160403 7-657
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sealord > The feather duster worm, Sabella spallanzanii, grows in abundance under the pontoons of Guernsey's east coast marinas. This individual, with its feeding tentacles extended, was photographed in Beaucette marina on Guernsey's north-east coast on 31 August 2005.
File No. 33-790
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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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sealord > The carnivorous Arctic cowrie, Trivia arctica, is common on the pontoons in the Queen Elizabeth 2 marina, St. Peter Port harbour, Guernsey.  It feeds on compound sea squirts (ascidians) which grow profusely on the pontoons and attached kelp fronds. Photographed on 19 September 2005
File No. 32-796
©RLLord
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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 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
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
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