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| Discovery of the day a rarely recorded species of hermit crab Pagurus forbesii |
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| very different colour to a common hermit |
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| He has a distinctive shaped wide claw which acts like a front door and is right handed! |
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| Beautiful bright green juvenile Ballan wrasse -Labrus bergylta |
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| Ballan wrasse in very different colour variety |
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| Butterfish portrait |
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| Chameleon prawn Hippolyte varians - they can quickly change colour - look for a spike on the top of the rostrum -diagnostic feature |
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| Tiny queen scallop Chlamys varia |
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| Underboulder life - cushion starfish Asterina gibbosa and a small sea ghurkin Pawsonia saxicola |
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| Closeup of a Green sea urchin Psammechinus miliaris |
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| After years of trying Patrick has finally got his eye in and he found two stalked jellyfish in shallow weed filled gullies. here is a Haliclustus octoradiatus - a rarely recorded species in many areas of the UK |
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| And Patrick also found this Haliclystus octoradiatus growing on Sargassum weed. |
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| Berthella plumula - a really cool sea slug - common name - plumed bertha! this one was approx 20mm but they can grow bigger. |
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| A strange worm found beneath the shore - its undulating movement was very bizzare! I have a video... |
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| Im not very good on identifying Chitons - they are cool animals though - a segmented gastropod, next to it is a pink rayed limpet Tectura virginea- the first I had seen size approx 10mm |
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| Heres another - Perhaps a chiton expert out there will let us know what we were looking at!! |
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| Unusually pale colour form of Rissos Crab Xantho pilipes |
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| And two more colour varieties - they are much more variable than their cousins the Montagu's crabs |
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| But my favorite was this juvenile Xantho pilipes which was only approx one centimetre across the shell! |
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| Rivularia atra - a rarely seen blue green algae - was abundant on open rock on the mid shore on the edge of the gully |
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| Shore rockling with some harpoon weed |
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| And just so the seaweed people don't feel left out here is a nice cockscomb! |
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