The small but beautiful gem anemone, Aulactinia verrucosa, lives in rock pools on the upper shore. This one was photographed in a green seaweed (Ulva sp.) filled rock pool at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast. As the tide was out the anemone had withdraw its tentacles. The rows of warts or verrucae on the column help identify this species. The closed anemone resembles the shell or test of a sea urchin. Photographed on 8 February 2005. File No. 080205 35-766 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net

hydrozoa (hydroids), scyphozoa (jellyfish), and Alcyonaria (soft corals, sea fans, & sea pens)

More images of sea anemones (actiniaria) can be seen in the Belle Greve Bay gallery at http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/3514797#133517495

Images of jewel anemones, plumose anemones and elegant anemones, Sagartia elegans, can be viewed in the QE II marina gallery at http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/3514775#102060423

Images of a large number of beadlet anemones can be seen in the Sark Caves gallery at http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/3514757#195151167

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The small but beautiful gem anemone, Aulactinia verrucosa, lives in rock pools on the upper shore. This one was photographed in a green seaweed (Ulva sp.) filled rock pool at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast. As the tide was out the anemone had withdraw its tentacles. The rows of warts or verrucae on the column help identify this species. The closed anemone resembles the shell or test of a sea urchin. Photographed on 8 February 2005.
File No. 080205 35-766
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net