Guernsey cnidaria

hydrozoa (hydroids), scyphozoa (jellyfish), and Alcyonaria (soft corals, sea fans, & sea pens)

More images of sea anemones (actiniaria) can be seen in the Belle Greve Bay gallery at http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/3514797#133517495

Images of jewel anemones, plumose anemones and elegant anemones, Sagartia elegans, can be viewed in the QE II marina gallery at http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/3514775#102060423

Images of a large number of beadlet anemones can be seen in the Sark Caves gallery at http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/3514757#195151167

This colony of Ectopleura hydroids was photographed in the Queen Elizabeth 2 marina, St. Peter Port harbour, Guernsey on 1 June 2006. According to Dr. Peter Schuchert from the Muséum d'histoire naturelle in Geneva (who is an authority on these animals) this species is most likely Ectopleura larynx but it could be Ectopleura crocea. The two species are difficult to tell apart in the field. E. crocea is the rarer of the two species. These hydroids grow on the darker side of the pontoons close to the mouth of the marina. Dr. Shuchert tells me that similar species in the genus Tubularia have no collar under the hydranth body. A collar is clearly present in the hydranth in the upper right corner of the image so these animals are in the genus Ectopleura.<br />
File no. 010606 33-853<br />
©RLLord<br />
fishinfo@guernsey.net

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This colony of Ectopleura hydroids was photographed in the Queen Elizabeth 2 marina, St. Peter Port harbour, Guernsey on 1 June 2006. According to Dr. Peter Schuchert from the Muséum d'histoire naturelle in Geneva (who is an authority on these animals) this species is most likely Ectopleura larynx but it could be Ectopleura crocea. The two species are difficult to tell apart in the field. E. crocea is the rarer of the two species. These hydroids grow on the darker side of the pontoons close to the mouth of the marina. Dr. Shuchert tells me that similar species in the genus Tubularia have no collar under the hydranth body. A collar is clearly present in the hydranth in the upper right corner of the image so these animals are in the genus Ectopleura.
File no. 010606 33-853
©RLLord
fishinfo@guernsey.net

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