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.
In Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast I turned over a cobble (adjacent photograph) in a small pool left by the falling tide and found thirty-nine juvenile hermit crabs, Pagurus bernhardus, occupying mostly Gibbula umbilicalis (flat top shell) shells. One of the hermit crabs occupied a larger painted top shell, Calliostoma zizyphinum, shell. These hermit crabs are Europe's largest and most common hermit crab species. As they grow they move to deeper water and will eventually occupy empty common whelk, Buccinum undatum, shells. Photographed on 4 February 2007
File No. 040207 6008
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fishinfo@guernsey.net
File No. 040207 6008
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
In Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast I turned over a cobble (adjacent photograph) in a small pool left by the falling tide and found thirty-nine juvenile hermit crabs, Pagurus bernhardus, occupying mostly Gibbula umbilicalis (flat top shell) shells. One of the hermit crabs occupied a larger painted top shell, Calliostoma zizyphinum, shell. These hermit crabs are Europe's largest and most common hermit crab species. As they grow they move to deeper water and will eventually occupy empty common whelk, Buccinum undatum, shells. Photographed on 4 February 2007
File No. 040207 6008
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
File No. 040207 6008
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
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