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.
This amazing terebellid worm, the sand mason, Lanice conchilega, is just what its common name suggests. It builds a tube out of whole, and individual pieces of, mollusc shells and grains of sand. The worm's glue used to attach grains of sand together must be strong to withstand the force of water that rushes over the top of the tube with its projections of fine threads of glued sand grains. The top of the tube of this sand mason was photographed on the lower shore of the beach in Belle Greve Bay on 28 April 2006.
File No. 280406 15
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File No. 280406 15
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
This amazing terebellid worm, the sand mason, Lanice conchilega, is just what its common name suggests. It builds a tube out of whole, and individual pieces of, mollusc shells and grains of sand. The worm's glue used to attach grains of sand together must be strong to withstand the force of water that rushes over the top of the tube with its projections of fine threads of glued sand grains. The top of the tube of this sand mason was photographed on the lower shore of the beach in Belle Greve Bay on 28 April 2006.
File No. 280406 15
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
File No. 280406 15
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
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