sealord > This grayling butterfly, Hipparchia semele, was photographed on this lichen covered rock by the sea at Moulin Huet on Guernsey's south coast on the 28 July 2008. It was identified from this photograph by entomologist Dr. Charles David of the Guernsey Biological Records Centre. http://www.biologicalrecordscentre.gov.gg/
File No. 280708 5956
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sealord > This fan mussel, Atrina fragilis, was caught accidentally in 54 fathoms of water off the south-east coast of Sark in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, Channel Islands, Great Britain on 30 January 2007.  It has a shell length of 23.0 cm and a maximum shell width of 12.83 cm.  The live animal was measured with the valves closed.  The thickness of the two shells or valves is 5.04 cm.  The whole animal drained of water weighs 293 grams.  Keelworms and two colonies of dead-man's fingers, Alcyonium digitatum, grow on one of the valves. It was returned to the sea alive.
File No. 300107 5874
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sealord > This prickly cockle, Acanthocardia echinata, was washed up on the beach in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast after eastly winds.  The animal was collected and photographed on 13 January 2005.  Identification was made by Jan Light of the British Conchology Society.
File No. 130105 30-764
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sealord > Guernsey molluscs >  Jujubinus striatus eel grass BG 051106 32-869 smg
sealord > A close-up view of zooids of the bryozoan, Flustrellidra hispida, which was growing on the surface of the brown seaweed, serrated wrack, Fucus serratus, at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast on 1 August 2003.  Some of the zooids have extended their lophophores (bell-shaped ring of ciliated tentacles) to feed.
File No. 010803 13-682
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sealord > The small snails, Rissostomia membranacea, somehow remain attached to the leaves of eel grass, Zostera marina, even while the eel grass leaves are being pulled from one side to another by the surf and currents of the seashore.  This gastropod was found on eel grass at the southern end of Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast and photographed on 5 November 2006
File No. 051106 18-869
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sealord > The Columbus crab, Planes minutus, was given to me by Guernsey commercial fisherman Chris Marquis on 14 December 2006.  He found the crab living on a buoy covered in goose barnacles, which was floating near Herm and Sark in the Bailiwick of Guernsey.  This crab was photographed hanging upside down on a cuttlebone.  The crab likes to float near the water's surface and becomes distressed if it accidentally falls off its float.
File No. 141206 26-871
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sealord > Guernsey ascidians >  Ascidia conchilega below horseshoe pool east coast 071006 31-863 smg
sealord > On 14 December 2006 Guernsey crab fisherman, Chris Marquis, potting for edible crabs, Cancer pagurus, found a buoy covered in goose barnacles, Lepas anatifera, floating in the sea in the Big Russell - a passage between the islands of Herm and Sark in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. In amongst the mass of goose barnacles he saw a Columbus crab, Planes minutus, which he gave to me.  I kept the crab in an aquarium.  On 23 December 2006 on the strand-line of the sea shore of the north-east coast of Guernsey I collected a rubber Kito Sports sandal, size 44, covered in small goose barnacles.  The crab lived on this goose barnacle-covered sandal for a number of days before the barnacles began to die. 

This crab also known as a Sargassum, Gulf weed or turtle crab, lives on flotsam and under the carapace of some turtles in the North Atlantic.  A few of these crabs turn up towards the end of the year in the western English Channel. A number of these crabs washed up on the south coast of England at the same time.
File No. 141206 5076
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This grayling butterfly, Hipparchia semele, was photographed on this lichen covered rock by the sea at Moulin Huet on Guernsey's south coast on the 28 July 2008. It was identified from this photograph by entomologist Dr. Charles David of the Guernsey Biological Records Centre.http://www.biologicalrecordscentre.gov.gg/
File No. 280708 5956
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This grayling butterfly, Hipparchia semele, was photographed on this lichen covered rock by the sea at Moulin Huet on Guernsey's south coast on the 28 July 2008. It was identified from this photograph by entomologist Dr. Charles David of the Guernsey Biological Records Centre. http://www.biologicalrecordscentre.gov.gg/
File No. 280708 5956
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
This grayling butterfly, Hipparchia semele, was photographed on this lichen covered rock by the sea at Moulin Huet on Guernsey's south coast on the 28 July 2008. It was identified from this photograph by entomologist Dr. Charles David of the Guernsey Biological Records Centre.http://www.biologicalrecordscentre.gov.gg/
File No. 280708 5956
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net
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