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.

Green sea urchin, Psammechinus miliaris, in a Belle Greve Bay tide pool on the 5th November 2006

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Green sea urchin, Psammechinus miliaris, in a Belle Greve Bay tide pool on the 5th November 2006

From a casual survey of Guernsey's sea-shore I think that the sea urchin, Psammechinus miliaris, may be increasing in abundance. I believe that I find them more often under boulders than I used to five or more years ago.

This individual photographed on the 5th November 2006 in Belle Greve bay on Guernsey's east coast was found in a mid-shore pool filled with crustose coralline algae covered boulders.

The Collins pocket guide to the Sea Shore of Britain and Ireland states that this species is omnivorous. It consumes among other things, barnacle spat. Cypris barnacle larvae are extremely abundant in Belle Greve Bay. At certain times of year almost every boulder (or cobble) turned over in the mid-shore area reveals on the surface of the puddle, formed in the depression left by the boulder, a flotilla of cypris barnacle larvae.

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Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast