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

Anemone prawn, Periclimenes sagittifer, in the tentacles of a Belle Greve Bay snakelocks anemone on the 20th March 2007

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Anemone prawn, Periclimenes sagittifer, in the tentacles of a Belle Greve Bay snakelocks anemone on the 20th March 2007

The beautiful anemone prawn, Periclimenes sagittifer, is usually found subtidally in Channel Island waters.

The individual in this photograph was found inter-tidally in Belle Greve Bay on the 20th March 2007. I found it on a grey snakelocks anemone, Anemonia viridis, under a boulder in a shallow tide pool. For photography I placed it on a green snakelocks anemone.

These shrimp have a commensal relationship with these sea anemones. They seem to be quite common subtidally but this is the first specimen I have seen intertidally. Another image of this individual is in the 'Guernsey crustacea' gallery in the 'Nature' category. Many more images of this specimen are on file including close-up images.

File No. BG 200307 19-891
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From Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast

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Guernsey crustacea