sealord > This red errant polychaete was about 7 or 8 cm long. I found it in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on April 17, 2007.  It was identified as Lysidice ninetta in the family eunicidae by Dr. Mary E. Petersen of the Darling Marine Center in Maine, USA; Dr. Daniela Iraci Sareri, University of Catania, Italy; Dr. Daniel Martin, Director, Centre d'Estudis Avancats de Blanes (CSIC), Spain; Guillermo Ruiz Cancino, Mexico; Dr. Salma Shalla based in the Isle of Man, UK; and Joana Zanol based in Washington, D.C., USA.  

I contacted them through the annelid email list - http://www.annelida.net/

For more information on this species please read the caption of the previous image.

File No. 170407 27-895
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sealord > Scallop fisherman Stan Breban caught this fan mussel, Atrina fragilis, while dredging for scallops on the 30 January 2007.  The shell length was 23.0 cm.  The maximum shell width was 12.83 cm (measured with callipers) and the maximum thickness of both valves of the living animal was 5.04 cm.  The bivalve drained of free water weighed 293 grams.
The fan mussel was caught in 54 fathoms of water somewhere south-east of Sark to the east of the Longue Bank.   Stan told me he sees about four of these fan mussels per year.  The live Atrina fragilis was returned to a net bag under the pontoon by the fish quay in St. Peter Port harbour after photography.  Later Stan returned the live bivalve mollusc to the open sea.   

File No. 1-875
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sealord > Guernsey Sea hares and sea slugs >  Janolus hyalinus BG 170207 19-877 smg
sealord > This image shows the hydranth of a hydroid in the genus Ectopleura and most probably the species Ectopleura larynx.  There are a similar number of aboral and boral tentacles. The hydroid possesses a collar under the body of the hydranth.  This hydroid was photographed in the Queen Elizabeth 2 marina, St. Peter Port harbour, Guernsey on 1 June 2006 using a Canon camera with a 100 mm macro lens and a bellows to increase magnification.  The image was taken by leaning over the edge of the pontoon and looking into the water.
File No. 30-853
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sealord > dog whelk, Nucella lapillus, egg cases attached to the wall of a crevice on the Guernsey seashore.
File No. 32-537
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sealord > The Guernsey abalone or ormer, Haliotis tuberculata, gliding over the bottom of a tide pool with its eyes peering out from under its shell.  The mantle is covered with long, green tentacles.
File No. 4-729
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sealord > Guernsey molluscs >  American slipper limpet Crepidula fornicata 24-718 smg
sealord > Commercial crab and lobster fisherman Clive Brown who pots off Guernsey's south coast gave me a solitary ascidian (sea squirt) which was attached to one of his pots.  Living inside this ascidian were these two amphipods.
File No. 2-601 
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sealord > This ribbon worm, Lineus bilineatus, has a clear two colour band running down the length of the body.
File No. 19-321
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This red errant polychaete was about 7 or 8 cm long. I found it in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on April 17, 2007. It was identified as Lysidice ninetta in the family eunicidae by Dr. Mary E. Petersen of the Darling Marine Center in Maine, USA; Dr. Daniela Iraci Sareri, University of Catania, Italy; Dr. Daniel Martin, Director, Centre d'Estudis Avancats de Blanes (CSIC), Spain; Guillermo Ruiz Cancino, Mexico; Dr. Salma Shalla based in the Isle of Man, UK; and Joana Zanol based in Washington, D.C., USA.

I contacted them through the annelid email list -http://www.annelida.net/

For more information on this species please read the caption of the previous image.

File No. 170407 27-895
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This red errant polychaete was about 7 or 8 cm long. I found it in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on April 17, 2007.  It was identified as Lysidice ninetta in the family eunicidae by Dr. Mary E. Petersen of the Darling Marine Center in Maine, USA; Dr. Daniela Iraci Sareri, University of Catania, Italy; Dr. Daniel Martin, Director, Centre d'Estudis Avancats de Blanes (CSIC), Spain; Guillermo Ruiz Cancino, Mexico; Dr. Salma Shalla based in the Isle of Man, UK; and Joana Zanol based in Washington, D.C., USA.  

I contacted them through the annelid email list - http://www.annelida.net/

For more information on this species please read the caption of the previous image.

File No. 170407 27-895
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
This red errant polychaete was about 7 or 8 cm long. I found it in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on April 17, 2007. It was identified as Lysidice ninetta in the family eunicidae by Dr. Mary E. Petersen of the Darling Marine Center in Maine, USA; Dr. Daniela Iraci Sareri, University of Catania, Italy; Dr. Daniel Martin, Director, Centre d'Estudis Avancats de Blanes (CSIC), Spain; Guillermo Ruiz Cancino, Mexico; Dr. Salma Shalla based in the Isle of Man, UK; and Joana Zanol based in Washington, D.C., USA.

I contacted them through the annelid email list -http://www.annelida.net/

For more information on this species please read the caption of the previous image.

File No. 170407 27-895
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
See photo in original gallery.

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