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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 gully is by the Quaine pole (the top of the pole has a large letter 'Q') in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast so I call it Quaine gully. It can only be reached by foot during an extreme low spring tide. This gully is home to clingfishes ( See http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/1984411#145028125 ), rocklings, squat lobsters (Galathea nexa), hermit crabs, ormers or abalone and many other occasional species such as the snapping prawn, Alpheus macrocheles (See http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/1984411#139498411 ). The walls of the gully are covered in crustose coralline algae and draped with thongweed, Himanthalia elongata and Laminaria kelps. The walls are also covered in a variety of sponges. Some of the crevices and holes in the gully walls contain Devonshire cup corals and sponges that avoid light. File No. BG 170407 7955 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > For reference to other images in this gallery I call this rock pool "crater rock pool". I photographed this small rock pool on 4 February 2007 looking east towards Quaine Rock in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. This pool is completely inundated by the rising tide. The water depth at this location would be probably about 15 to 20 feet during a high spring tide. During this visit I photographed in this pool a large clawed, chocolate brown coloured furrowed crab, Xantho incisus; three long spined sea scorpions (fish), Taurulus bubalis, which are members of the sculpin family, and two candy striped flatworms, Prostheceraeus vittatus. The flatworms were photographed accidentally. I was photographing a solitary ascidian covered in orange sponge or a compound ascidian (I have to return to determine the identity). I did not see the flatworms lying under the ascidian/ sponge until I viewed the images afterwards. File No.040207 6075 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This is a view taken on the 2 April 2007 of what I am calling crater pool (because of the high sides) in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. The image looks towards the north. If you compare this image with a previous image of this pool taken on 4th February 2007 you will see the amount of growth that has taken place of the invasive brown seaweed, Sargassum muticum. This is a small pool where I found two furrowed crabs, Xantho incisus; two candy striped flatworms, and three long-spined sea scorpions (sculpin family). Long-spined sea scorpion eggs were deposited under a tuft of the red algae, Corallina officinalis, on the left-hand pointed corner of the flat-topped rock under 'tog' of 'phoTOGgraphy in the Sealord watermark. File No. BG 020407 7809 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This large furrowed crab, Xantho incisus, was photographed in 'crater rock pool" (See http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/1984411#127980518 ) in Belle Greve Bay on 4 February 2007. The width of the animal including the heavy claws was about 10 cm. I photographed it on 4 February 2007. File No. 040207 6060 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This large furrowed crab, Xantho incisus, is a resident of what I call 'crater rock pool' in Belle Greve Bay (See http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/1984411#127980518 ). I photographed this animal as it was spreading its clawed arms in a defensive posture. Photographed in Belle Greve Bay on the 19 February 2007. File No. BG 190207 6561 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > A palaemonid prawn hides under a ledge in a rock pool in Belle Greve Bay. The tip of the rostrum of this prawn is missing. Palaemonid shrimp or prawns (the names are interchangable) are abundant in Belle Greve Bay. They seem to co-exist very well with the numerous intertidal fish species in the bay. They are good scavengers cleaning up after others. Photographed on 4 February 2007. File No. 040207 6045 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > Two black striped white 'candy striped' flatworms, Prostheceraeus vittatus, can be seen in the lower left of the image under the orange sponge. The blue sponge, Terpios fugax, can be seen on the right side just below the middle of the image. The erect coralline algae, Corallina officinalis, grows around the orange sponge and foliose coralline algae grows over the rock below. This image was taken in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast in a rock pool I have named 'crater rock pool' for reference purposes (See http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/1984411#127980518 ). Photography on 4 February 2007. File No. BG 040207 6088 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > A monach cowrie, Trivia monacha, glides over the surface of a boulder in a 'crater rock pool' (See http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/1984411#127980518 ) in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. Photographed on 4 February 2007. File No. 040207 6052 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > A beautifully camouflaged long spined sea scorpion, Taurulus bubalis, lives in 'crater' tide pool (see http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/1984411#127980518 ) in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. The fish has been resident in the tide pool for several days while laying eggs. The pink colouration of the head and parts of the body match the colour of the crustose corraline seaweed lining the boulders and the bottom of the pool. This fish has a parasitic isopod, Anilocra frontalis, attached to its right side behind the head. Many of these fish carry these juvenile crustacean skin parasites. The are probably a vector for these juvenile parasites that later in life attached to commercially important species such as black seabream, Spondyliosoma cantharus. This long-spined sea scorpion, which is a member of the sculpin family, was the fifth individual I found on the Belle Greve shore on 4 February 2007. Three of them were host to Anilocra frontalis (isopod) parasites. Photographed in Belle Greve Bay on 4 February 2007. File No. 040207 6061 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
This gully is by the Quaine pole (the top of the pole has a large letter 'Q') in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast so I call it Quaine gully. It can only be reached by foot during an extreme low spring tide. This gully is home to clingfishes ( See http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/1984411#145028125 ), rocklings, squat lobsters (Galathea nexa), hermit crabs, ormers or abalone and many other occasional species such as the snapping prawn, Alpheus macrocheles (See http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/1984411#139498411 ). The walls of the gully are covered in crustose coralline algae and draped with thongweed, Himanthalia elongata and Laminaria kelps. The walls are also covered in a variety of sponges. Some of the crevices and holes in the gully walls contain Devonshire cup corals and sponges that avoid light.
File No. BG 170407 7955
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
> This gully is by the Quaine pole (the top of the pole has a large letter 'Q') in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast so I call it Quaine gully. It can only be reached by foot during an extreme low spring tide. This gully is home to clingfishes ( See http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/1984411#145028125 ), rocklings, squat lobsters (Galathea nexa), hermit crabs, ormers or abalone and many other occasional species such as the snapping prawn, Alpheus macrocheles (See http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/1984411#139498411 ). The walls of the gully are covered in crustose coralline algae and draped with thongweed, Himanthalia elongata and Laminaria kelps. The walls are also covered in a variety of sponges. Some of the crevices and holes in the gully walls contain Devonshire cup corals and sponges that avoid light. File No. BG 170407 7955 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
This gully is by the Quaine pole (the top of the pole has a large letter 'Q') in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast so I call it Quaine gully. It can only be reached by foot during an extreme low spring tide. This gully is home to clingfishes ( See http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/1984411#145028125 ), rocklings, squat lobsters (Galathea nexa), hermit crabs, ormers or abalone and many other occasional species such as the snapping prawn, Alpheus macrocheles (See http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/1984411#139498411 ). The walls of the gully are covered in crustose coralline algae and draped with thongweed, Himanthalia elongata and Laminaria kelps. The walls are also covered in a variety of sponges. Some of the crevices and holes in the gully walls contain Devonshire cup corals and sponges that avoid light.
File No. BG 170407 7955
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
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