Guernsey crustacea

Crustaceans found in Guernsey marine waters including barnacles; copepods; ostracods; malacostracans (cumaceans, tanaids, mysids, isopods, amphipods, and decapods (shrimp/ prawns, lobsters, anomurans, and crabs).

More images of crustacea can be viewed in the Belle Greve Bay, Guernsey gallery at http://sealord.smugmug.com/gallery/3514797#139888289

Pagurus bernhardus shell exchange in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on 4th February 2007

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Pagurus bernhardus shell exchange in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on 4th February 2007

In Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast I turned over a cobble (adjacent photograph) in a small pool left by the falling tide and found thirty-nine juvenile hermit crabs, Pagurus bernhardus, occupying mostly Gibbula umbilicalis (flat top shell) shells. One of the hermit crabs occupied a larger painted top shell, Calliostoma zizyphinum, shell.

These hermit crabs are Europe's largest and most common hermit crab species.

As they grow they move to deeper water and will eventually occupy empty common whelk, Buccinum undatum, shells.

Photographed on 4th February 2007

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From Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast

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Guernsey crustacea