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sealord > This common Guernsey sea hare, Aplysia punctata, which usually arrives on the Guernsey shore to reproduce and lay spawn in March and April is seen gliding through a tuft of red seaweed, Calliblepharis jubata. In front of its oral tentacles is a flat or purple top shell, Gibbula umbilicalis. The parapodia are edged in white as are the rhinophores and the oral tentacles. The eyes are tiny. Photographed in a rock pool in Belle Greve Bay on the 25 January 2008. File No. BG 250108 2549 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey
sealord > The sea hare, Apylsia depilans, glides along the gravel floor of a rock pool in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. This sea hare is about 20 cm long when fully extended and weighed 162 grams. Sea hares graze on seaweeds. Aplysia punctata is common on the Guernsey shore in the spring but this species, Aplysia depilans, is seen rarely. It is a more southern species found on the Brittany coast of France. File No. BG 250108 2507 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This nudibranch, Facelina auriculata, was one of three species of sea slug I saw feeding on the side of a pontoon attached to the fish quay in St. Peter Port harbour, Guernsey on 8 June 2007. File No. 080607 20-917 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > The nudibranch, Facelina auriculata, gliding over the invertebrate fauna growing on a pontoon attached to the fish quay in St. Peter Port harbour, Guernsey. Behind Facelina auriculata is the sea slug Facelina bostoniensis. Photographed on the 8 June 2007. File No. 080607 7-917 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > I visited the fish quay pontoons in St. Peter Port harbour on the 18th September and found three large Janolus cristatus nudibranchs but I didn't photograph them. On the 21 September I revisited the pontoons and saw this tiny Janolus cristatus individual that probably wasn't much more than 10 mm long. Janolus cristatus feed on bryozoan colonies and particularly the erect Bugula colonies. They also lay their strings of pearl-like egg cases on their food. File No. 210907 1102 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast > Ovatella myosotis BG 180407 28-899 smg
sealord > This nudibranch, Doris sticta, entered one of Clive Brown's crab pots off Guernsey's south coast on the 30 June 2003. This image shows the head and the rhinophores. The species is readily identified by the purple-tipped tubercles on the skin, which are interconnected by raised ridges. Photographed on the 30 June 2003. File No. 300603 14-675 ©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 > 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
This common Guernsey sea hare, Aplysia punctata, which usually arrives on the Guernsey shore to reproduce and lay spawn in March and April is seen gliding through a tuft of red seaweed, Calliblepharis jubata. In front of its oral tentacles is a flat or purple top shell, Gibbula umbilicalis. The parapodia are edged in white as are the rhinophores and the oral tentacles. The eyes are tiny. Photographed in a rock pool in Belle Greve Bay on the 25 January 2008.
File No. BG 250108 2549
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey
sealord > This common Guernsey sea hare, Aplysia punctata, which usually arrives on the Guernsey shore to reproduce and lay spawn in March and April is seen gliding through a tuft of red seaweed, Calliblepharis jubata. In front of its oral tentacles is a flat or purple top shell, Gibbula umbilicalis. The parapodia are edged in white as are the rhinophores and the oral tentacles. The eyes are tiny. Photographed in a rock pool in Belle Greve Bay on the 25 January 2008. File No. BG 250108 2549 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey
This common Guernsey sea hare, Aplysia punctata, which usually arrives on the Guernsey shore to reproduce and lay spawn in March and April is seen gliding through a tuft of red seaweed, Calliblepharis jubata. In front of its oral tentacles is a flat or purple top shell, Gibbula umbilicalis. The parapodia are edged in white as are the rhinophores and the oral tentacles. The eyes are tiny. Photographed in a rock pool in Belle Greve Bay on the 25 January 2008.
File No. BG 250108 2549
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey
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