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 | Brown Seaweeds, Seaweeds, Species List
Serrated Wrack – Fucus serratus Fucuses are brown seaweed which cover alot of the middle of rockyshores in the UK. Serrated wrack can be told apart, quite easily from the other Fucus species once you know what to look for. Its a very flat fucus, with no...
by MarineMumbles | Jul 5, 2020 | Brown Seaweeds, Seaweeds, Species List
Serrated Wrack – Fucus serratus Fucuses are brown seaweed which cover alot of the middle of rockyshores in the UK. Spiral wrack can be told apart from the other Fucus species if you look at the way it hangs down. If you see the ends of the fronds spiral...
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 | 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
Common periwinkle – Littorina littorea Periwinkles – our friendly seasnail pals! I remeber watching and counting these as a kid, one of my first introductions to the rockyshore world! With dark black shells, and a stripey snail body these are as cute...
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