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sealord > This scaleworm with 15 pairs of scales (elytra) along the dorsal surface was unearthed from damp sand by bait digger Sam Robins on the 20th March 2007. This scaleworm was buried in the beach in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. File No. BG 200307 26-882 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > Ormer gatherer Jerry Help finds ormers in Belle Greve Bay on 20 March 2007. File No. 200307 26-889v ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast > ormer gatherer Jerry Help 200307 30-889 smg
sealord > During the large equinoctial spring tide of March 20, 2007 ormer (abalone, Haliotis tuberculata) gatherers search the Guernsey shore for the delectable mollusc. The brown kelps in the foreground are Laminaria ochroleuca. Low water was at about 0.2 metres above chart datum at about 1400. In the distance buildings line the Belle Greve Bay waterfront. File No. 200307 7470 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > The beautiful anemone prawn, Periclimenes sagittifer, is usually found subtidally in Channel Island waters. The individual in this photograph was found intertidally in Belle Greve Bay on the 20 March 2007. I found it on a grey snakelocks anemone, Anemonia viridis, under a boulder in a shallow tide pool. For photography I placed it on a green snakelocks anemone. These shrimp have a commensal relationship with these sea anemones. They seem to be quite common subtidally but this is the first specimen I have seen intertidally. Another image of this individual is in the 'Guernsey crustacea' gallery in the 'Nature' category. Many more images of this specimen are on file including close-up images. File No. BG 200307 19-891 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This image shows the foot of the turban top shell, Gibbula magus. I turned the snail on its side. The animal extended its foot to quickly turn itself over. This image clearly shows the epipodal tentacles. One eye is hidden behind the 'R' in the Sealord watermark. Dr. Alastair Graham provides a detailed description of the animal in his book "Molluscs: Prosobranch and Pyramidellid Gastropods" published as part of the Synopses of the British Fauna. The following attributes which he writes about can be seen in this photograph: The snout is densely papillated. The epipodal ridge has a scalloped edge. The foot is blunt anteriorly, pointed posteriorly. Its dorsal surface carries many transverse grooves. The umbilicus (which is a deep hole in the base of the shell separate from the opening from which the animal extends from) can be seen above the 'h' in 'Photography'. The umbilicus is large and approached by a comma-shaped groove. Dr. Graham writes that turban top shells "usually live below tidemarks, though rare specimens may be found at L.W.S.T." (low water during a spring tide). This description matches my observations. File No. BG 200307 31-891 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > The squat lobster, Galathea nexa, is usually found subtidally but I found a number of them at extreme low water during a big spring tide in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. They were under cobbles in a gully near Quaine rock on 20 March 2007. File No. BG 200307 22-892 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > Shore rockling, Gaidropsarus mediterraneus, are scarce on the Guernsey shore during the winter months but they seem to arrive in inshore waters and into the intertidal area before or during the largest set of spring tides in March. During the large spring tides of late march, anglers were catching shore rockling from the St. Peter Port harbour wall. Shore rockling were numerous under boulders and cobbles in the intertidal area of Belle Greve Bay. This individual was found in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on the 20 March 2007. The three-bearded rockling, which this species resembles, is not found in the intertidal area. It also has a different skin colour and it has more pectoral rays than the shore rockling. File No. BG 200307 35-893 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > The less furrowed crab or Risso's crab, Xantho pilipes, is the least common of the three xanthid crabs found intertidally in Guernsey. The much smaller hairy crab, Pilumnus hirtellus, is much more common and the larger chocolate-brown coloured Xantho incisus, is slightly more common. Xantho pilipes can be easily separated from Xantho incisus because it has a thick line of setae (hairs) on its rear pereiopods (legs). Xantho incisus has far fewer setae. This specimen was found under a boulder in Belle Greve Bay on 20 March 2007. File No. BG 200307 22-893 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
This scaleworm with 15 pairs of scales (elytra) along the dorsal surface was unearthed from damp sand by bait digger Sam Robins on the 20th March 2007. This scaleworm was buried in the beach in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast.
File No. BG 200307 26-882
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This scaleworm with 15 pairs of scales (elytra) along the dorsal surface was unearthed from damp sand by bait digger Sam Robins on the 20th March 2007. This scaleworm was buried in the beach in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. File No. BG 200307 26-882 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
This scaleworm with 15 pairs of scales (elytra) along the dorsal surface was unearthed from damp sand by bait digger Sam Robins on the 20th March 2007. This scaleworm was buried in the beach in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast.
File No. BG 200307 26-882
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
See photo in original gallery.
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