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Guernsey commercial fisherman Clive Brown brought me a bundle of 15 mm diameter rope that he found at sea suspended from a float. He removed the float and brought me the wound up rope, which was encrusted with bryozoans and had mussels and scallops attached to it. I unwound the rope and found four of these scaleworms, family aphroditidae, living inside the rope windings. Clive brought me the rope on February 4, 2008. I unravelled it and took photographs that afternoon of the species living inside the rope with a Canon A640 digital camera with an off-camera epoque flash using white reflectors over a black background. File No. 040208 2865 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
scaleworm from rope CB 040208 2869 smg
scaleworm from rope CB 040208 2867 smg
Aplysia deplians BG pool 250108 2503 smg
This sea hare, Aplysia depilans, is rare in Guernsey. This is the first live individual I have seen in Guernsey waters since arriving here in 1995. I saw a dead specimen that had floated into St. Peter Port harbour in 1998. This species has a broad, dark reddish-brown foot unlike the common Aplysia punctata, which has a narrow, pale yellowish-white foot. The wing-like parapodia enveloping the body wrap around the posterior end of the animal. This individual weighed 162 grams and it was about 20 cm when fully extended. Sea hares are principally herbivores that eat seaweeds although they will also scoop up encrusting invertebrates. They are synchronous hermaphrodites forming breeding chains where one individual will act simultaneously as a female for the animal behind it and as a male for the individual infront of it. File No. BG 240108 2484 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
Carcinus maenas BG 190507 32-904 smg
The European sting winkle, Ocenebra erinacea, laying egg capsules on the roof of a small cave in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on the 17 April 2007. Three egg laying sting winkles can be seen in the image. One of them at the bottom of the image has a coralline algae covered shell. File No. BG 170407 7922 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
Two shore clingfish, Lepadogaster lepadogaster, guard their sheet of eggs, which they have attached to the base of a boulder in Quaine gully in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. Clingfish are well-adapted to living in gullies because their modified pelvic fins allow them to adhere to the substrate so they don't get swept away by strong water flows rushing up and down the gully. The eggs in the sheet have been deposited on two separate occasions as the darker orange eggs are more advanced in development than the pale yellow eggs, which have been laid recently. Photographed on the 17 April 2007. File No. BG 170407 7930 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
Wave and tidal action deposit the finest material in and around Salerie harbour at the southern corner of Belle Greve Bay. Here lugworms cover the surface with their casts. File No. BG 180407 8067 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
Guernsey commercial fisherman Clive Brown brought me a bundle of 15 mm diameter rope that he found at sea suspended from a float. He removed the float and brought me the wound up rope, which was encrusted with bryozoans and had mussels and scallops attached to it. I unwound the rope and found four of these scaleworms, family aphroditidae, living inside the rope windings.

Clive brought me the rope on February 4, 2008. I unravelled it and took photographs that afternoon of the species living inside the rope with a Canon A640 digital camera with an off-camera epoque flash using white reflectors over a black background.
File No. 040208 2865
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
Guernsey commercial fisherman Clive Brown brought me a bundle of 15 mm diameter rope that he found at sea suspended from a float. He removed the float and brought me the wound up rope, which was encrusted with bryozoans and had mussels and scallops attached to it. I unwound the rope and found four of these scaleworms, family aphroditidae, living inside the rope windings. Clive brought me the rope on February 4, 2008. I unravelled it and took photographs that afternoon of the species living inside the rope with a Canon A640 digital camera with an off-camera epoque flash using white reflectors over a black background. File No. 040208 2865 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
Guernsey commercial fisherman Clive Brown brought me a bundle of 15 mm diameter rope that he found at sea suspended from a float. He removed the float and brought me the wound up rope, which was encrusted with bryozoans and had mussels and scallops attached to it. I unwound the rope and found four of these scaleworms, family aphroditidae, living inside the rope windings.

Clive brought me the rope on February 4, 2008. I unravelled it and took photographs that afternoon of the species living inside the rope with a Canon A640 digital camera with an off-camera epoque flash using white reflectors over a black background.
File No. 040208 2865
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
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