This image shows some of the eel grass, Zostera marina, beds at ELWS (extreme low water spring tide) near Salerie Corner in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. The disturbed areas are where bait diggers have been digging for razor clams. Photographed on the 20 February 2007 File No. BG 200207 6616 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net

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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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
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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
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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
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This is one of the three long-spined sea scorpions, Taurulus bubalis, I found in 'crater' rock pool (See http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/1984411#127980518 ) in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on the 5 February 2007. The camouflage is extraordinary. The skin colour of the fish's head matches the adjacent rock closely. To blend with their surroundings I presume these fish stay in one place for sufficient time to alter the colour of their skin.
File No. 050207 6322
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I believe these long spined sea scorpion, Taurulus bubalis, eggs were laid sometime during the 4th or 5th of February 2007. These eggs were photographed on 5 February 2007 in 'crater' rock pool in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast (See http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/1984411#127980518 ). I visited this pool during the afternoon of 4th February and although I examined the boulder on which they were laid I did not see the eggs but found them the following day. The eggs were laid near the lower edge of the boulder under overhanging tufts of coralline algae, Corallina officinalis. I found three adult long-spined sea scorpions in this rock pool on the 4th and 5th of February.
File No. 050207 6329
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These long-spined sea scorpion, Taurulus bubalis, eggs laid in 'crater rock pool' (see http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/1984411#127980518 ) were seen first on the 5 February 2007 (see http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/1984411#129298476 ). One month later and most of them have hatched but a few eggs are still developing. The eggs have eyes and some tails can be seen too. These eggs were still protected by an adult long-spined sea scorpion but it swam away when I took the photograph. The fish belong to the sculpin family, cottidae. Photographed on the 5 March 2007.

File No. 050307 6837
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Turnstones, Arenaria interpres, are constant companions when I walk over the rocky shore of Belle Greve Bay although they keep a certain distance infront of me. They are well camouflaged. Often I don't notice them until they take-off infront of me.

File No. BG 170207 17-878
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eel grass Zostera marina bed BG 210307 23-890 smg

This image shows some of the eel grass, Zostera marina, beds at ELWS (extreme low water spring tide) near Salerie Corner in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. The disturbed areas are where bait diggers have been digging for razor clams.

Photographed on the 20 February 2007
File No. BG 200207 6616
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net

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