Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast

Marine life found in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. Guernsey is the second largest island in the Channel Islands located between England and France. The gallery begins with general views of the bay followed by major groups of animals including sponges, cnidarians, worms, crustaceans, molluscs, echinoderms, ascidians, fishes and ending with some algae.

Furrowed crab, Xantho hydrophilus, photographed in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on 5th March 2007

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Furrowed crab, Xantho hydrophilus, photographed in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast on 5th March 2007

This chocolate-brown male furrowed crab, Xantho hydrophilus (formerly Xantho incisus), has a carapace width of 56.2 mm.

It lives in a sandy bottomed tide pool which has a number of coralline algae covered boulders lying it.

I found two Xantho hydrophilus (formerly X. incisus) crabs in this tide pool - this large male with heavy, brown-tipped claws and a smaller female with a carapace width of 42.6 mm.

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Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast