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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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The polychaete worm, Marphysa sanguinea, called verm in Guernsey, in the bottom of a bucket after having been dug up with a fork in Belle Greve Bay by recreational bait digger Sam Robins on 10 February 2005. File No. 100205 661 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
Sam Robins holding the polychaete worm, Marphysa sanguinea, called verm in Guernsey, which was dug up from the shore of Belle Greve Bay on 10 February 2005. These worms make excellent angling bait. They grow to a length of 60 cm. File No. 100205 657 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
A small cave in Belle Greve bay was home to seven fan worms, Bispira volutacornis. The worms had withdrawn into their respective tubes because they had been exposed by low tide. This image was taken on the 9 March 2004. Regrettably the worms are no longer in the cave. As the tubes no longer exist they may have been removed by a bait collector. File No. 090304 23 ©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
This amphipod, Gammarellus homari, was identified by Dutch marine biologist Marco Faasse. This species grows to a length of 3.5 cm. I collected some red seaweed, Plocamium cartilagineum, in Belle Greve Bay. I placed this seaweed in a tray of seawater and this amphipod swam away from the fronds. File No. 34-108 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
The sipunculid, Sipunculus nudus, dug up by a bait digger from the beach in Belle Greve Bay on 29 March 2006. File No. 21-823 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
Cyanea lamarckii with Hyperia sp Belle Greve Bay 110510 ©RLLord 9209 smg
Cyanea lamarckii with Hyperia sp Belle Greve Bay 110510 ©RLLord 9215 smg
Sphaeroma serratum BG 220507 8871 smg
The polychaete worm, Marphysa sanguinea, called verm in Guernsey, in the bottom of a bucket after having been dug up with a fork in Belle Greve Bay by recreational bait digger Sam Robins on 10 February 2005.
File No. 100205 661
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
The polychaete worm, Marphysa sanguinea, called verm in Guernsey, in the bottom of a bucket after having been dug up with a fork in Belle Greve Bay by recreational bait digger Sam Robins on 10 February 2005. File No. 100205 661 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
The polychaete worm, Marphysa sanguinea, called verm in Guernsey, in the bottom of a bucket after having been dug up with a fork in Belle Greve Bay by recreational bait digger Sam Robins on 10 February 2005.
File No. 100205 661
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
filename: verm collected by San Robins BG 100205 661 smg |
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