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Marine life found in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. Guernsey is the second largest island in the Channel Islands located between England and France. The gallery begins with general views of the bay followed by major groups of animals including sponges, cnidarians, worms, crustaceans, molluscs, echinoderms, ascidians, fishes and ending with some algae.
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sealord > This long-spined sea scorpion, Taurulus bubalis, remained still while I took numerous photographs with a compact digital camera in an underwater housing. It had a parasitic isopod, Anilocra frontalis, attached to the right side of its body behind the pectoral fin. The picture shows that the fish appears to be sloughing off its skin. I do not know if this a consequence of the parasitic isopod. This member of the sculpin family was revealed when I turned over a boulder it was hinding under. Photographed in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on 19 February 2007. File No. BG 190207 6530 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This long-spined sea scorpion, Taurulus bubalis, was photographed in a gravel bottomed tide pool in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on the 19 February 2007. This fish harboured the isopod skin parasite, Anilocra frontalis, hidden from view just behind its right pectoral fin. The long-spined sea scorpion is one of the easiest intertidal fish to photograph because it usually remains perfectly still relying on its camouflage and its operculum (gill cover) and dorsal spines to deter predators. File No. BG 190207 6540 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This image shows two egg deposits of the long-spined sea scorpion or long-spined bullhead, Taurulus bubalis, on the shore in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on 5 February 2007. The orange eggs have been deposited in the last few days. The green eggs to the right have developed eyes and are more developed. February 5 was after a three day opening of the ormer, (abalone) Haliotis tuberculata, shore gathering fishery in Guernsey. This boulder had been turned over by someone looking for ormers leaving the eggs exposed. The boulder was turned back the correct way up after the photograph was taken. File No. 050207 6262 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > The long-spined sea scorpion, Taurulus bubalis, is remarkably well camouflaged. The pink patches on its head are close in colour to the patches of crustose corraline algae growing in the tide pool. This fish, which is a member of the sculpin family, cottidae, was uncovered by turning over a boulder. It did not move while I photographed it. This species can be identified from the other sculpin in British waters (Bull rout) by the fleshy tentacle growing out from the maxilla bone at the corner of the mouth. Photographed in Belle Greve Bay on 5 January 2007. File No. 050107 5418 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > The long-spined sea scorpion, Taurulus bubalis, is a member of the sculpin family (cottidae). It is common on the Belle Greve Bay seashore in January when the fish arrive to lay their eggs. They hide under boulders. They are well camouflaged and lie very still and so they are easy to photograph. They have long spines on the operculum (gill cover) which they expand if threatened. Fish eating birds like little egrets will have a difficult time swallowing this spiny fish. Whereas gobies dart away Taurulus bubalis lies completely still when revealed as it has a good deterrent to being swallowed. Photographed in an mid-shore Belle Greve Bay tide pool on Guernsey's east coast on 4 January 2007. File No. 040107 5293 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > These long-spined sea scorpion, Taurulus bubalis, eggs were laid on the sea shore of Belle Greve Bay underneath a stone that had already been turned over. The eggs are readily identifiable because they have a warty or pimpled surface. These eggs were photographed on 3 march 2006. This species belongs to the sculpin or bullhead family, cottidae. File No. 2-819 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This deposit of orange long-spined sea scorpion eggs, Taurulus bubalis, has been made on a surface of spirorbid tubeworms and crustose coralline algae, which would normally be growing on the upper surface of a rock. The long-spined sea scorpion normally deposits fertilised eggs on the lower surface of a boulder or cobble but this rock had most likely been turned over recently by a recreational ormer (abalone) harvester. The eggs have been laid on what would normally be the upper surface of the rock. Photographed in Belle Greve Bay on 10 February 2005. File No. 100205 660 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This corkwing wrasse, Crenilabrus melops, was living in a nest or hammock of hydroids and algae attached to the side of a boulder I turned over in a Belle Greve Bay rock pool. I placed the fish in another tide pool and it immediately sought shelter under the red coralline algae, Corallina officinalis. Corkwing wrasse are very difficult to photograph because they always swim quickly away and seek shelter under algae and stones. Photographed in Belle Greve Bay on 5 January 2007. File No. 050107 5421 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
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