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 > Guernsey insects >  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 ctenostomatid bryozoan Flustrellidra hispida growing on the brown seaweed, serrated wrack, Fucus serratus.  The close-up image shows the kenozooid spines and the expanded feeding lophophores.  Collected from La Valette on Guernsey's east coast on 1 August 2003.
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 > Guernsey insects >  Ascidia conchilega below horseshoe pool east coast 071006 31-863 smg
sealord > This sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, was given to me by "Out of Blue" charter boat owner Richard Seager who landed it attached to a bass, Dicentrarchus labrax.  I photographed it in my aquarium before returning it alive to the sea.
File No. 24-774
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sealord > This sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, was photographed at the Guernsey Aquarium, which is open to the public.  It was photographed on 7 February 2005 when it was delivered to the aquarium by a recreational angler who had found it attached to a bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, that he had caught.
File No. 15-766 
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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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