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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 2842 smg
scaleworm from rope CB 040208 2869 smg
scaleworm from rope CB 040208 2867 smg
Asterina gibbosa eggs BG 020607 29 smg
This beautiful scaleworm, Alentia gelatinosa, turned up in one of Clive Brown's crab pots in about 50 fathoms of water off the south coast of Guernsey. The same species is found also on the Guernsey shore under boulders and cobbles and in tide pools. It swims quickly in a slinky manner undulating its body from side to side. It is the largest scaleworm found on the Guernsey shore reaching a length of 6 to 7 cm. It is not abundant but it is seen regularly. The scales or elytra overlap and cover the dorsal surface of the body. They are easily shed if the animal is handled. The worm has a soft gelatinous appearance. It can be brown or grey. It does not appear in the Collins Pocket Guide Sea Shore of Britain & Northern Europe by Peter Hayward, Tony Nelson-Smith and Chris Shields. I identified this species from a French sea shore guide. Clive Brown gave this scaleworm for me to photograph on 16 April, 2003. File No. 160403 12-657 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
Dr. Mary Petersen, Scholar in Residence, at the Darling Marine Center, University of Maine, Maine USA kindly identified this polychaete worm as Flabelligera affinis. This worm was first described by Sars in 1828. File No. 16-531 ©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
This catworm, family nephtyidae, was not identified to species. It is either Nephtys caeca or Nephtys hombergi. It was given to me by Andy Marquis who owns the Fishing Guernsey web site - http://www.fishing-guernsey.co.uk/ He was digging in Belle Greve Bay for a long, hard worm called locally, verm, Marphysa sanguinea, and while doing this unearthed a number of other polychaete species and also some sipunculids, which he gave me. This catworm was given to me and photographed on 17 February 2007. File No. BG 170207 30-878 ©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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