by MarineMumbles | Jul 5, 2020 | Snails, Species List
Flat Periwinkle – Littorina obtusata Flat Periwinkle are the cutests of all rockyshore snails – thats a fact. Called flat periminkles because they dont really have the pointy bit of the shell and are much more spherical. These can be found living...
by MarineMumbles | Jul 5, 2020 | Crabs, Species List
Edible Crab – Cancer pagarus This species is as close as youll get to a calm crab, well on the rockyshore perhaps. Rockyshores tend to be great places for small juviniles to live, but they can get much larger, with much scarier claws out to sea. Its these...
by MarineMumbles | Jul 5, 2020 | Snails, Species List
Dog Whelk – Nucella lapillus Dog whelks lay eggs and are pretty gruseome predators. Yep, both of those things are entirely true! Below are the photos of the little eggs you can find on the bottom of rocks, particuairty in spring left by this species. To fin dour...
by MarineMumbles | Jul 5, 2020 | Anemones, Species List
Dhalia Anemone – Urctinia felina Dhalia Anemones are always an unexpected treasure – fans of living partially burried in sand, finding one can really feel like youve just found a flower in the middle of a desert. These large anemones, with long tentacles...
by MarineMumbles | Jul 5, 2020 | Fish, Species List
Dab – Limanda limanda Dabs are flatfish, named so because well this group of species is very flat. They live on the sandy surfaces both on sandy shores and rockpools where there amazing sand colourations means they blend in almost perfectly. This helps them not...
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