Rocky Shore Species by Thumbnails

Click on the small photo or the text to reach your creature. Plant-like species like seaweeds and lichens come after the animals.

Animals of the Rocky Shore

Acorn Barnacles	Beadlet Anemone	Brittlestars	Chitons
Common Shore Crab	Cushion Stars	Dahlia Anemone	Dog whelks
Edible Crab	Flat or Smooth Perwinkles	Gem Anemone	Green Worm Eulalia viridis
Hermit Crab	Hydroids	Jellyfish	Keeled Tubeworm Pomatoceros
Limpets Common	Limpet Blue-rayed	Mussels	Netted dogwhelk
Orange Sponges	Periwinkle Edible	Periwinkle Rough	Porcelain crab
Saccullina Crab Parasite	Sandhoppers	Scale Worm	Sea Hare
Sea Gooseberry	Sea Mat	Sea Slater (Ligia)	Sea Slugs
Sea Squirt	Prawns (Palaemon)	Snakeslock Sea Anemone	Spider crab
Sponge - Bread crumb	Sponge Purse	Star Ascidians	Starfish
Swimming crab	Topshells	Tubeworms	Urchin
Scallops	Bloody Henry	Sea Urchin (Echinus)	Nemertine
Sea spider	Blenny or shanny	Butterfish	Rockling
Star Ascidians	Candy stripe flatworm	Cowrie Shell	Goneplax crab
Holothuria (Aslia) Sea Cucumbers	Piddock Shells	Spider (Macropodia) Crab	Marine bristletail
Smallwinkle Melaraphe	Crinoids Feather Stars	Pseudo scorpion	Springtails marine	Terebellid Worm
Squat lobster Galathia	Keyhole limpet	Lasea adansoni/rubra	Palaeomon Prawns	Tomopteris worm
Sand eels	Worm Pipefish	Cornish sucker fish	Dogfish	Lumpfish

Algae (Seaweeds)

Kelp species Laminaria	Knotted or Egg Wrack (Ascophylum nodosum)	Irish Moss (Chondrus crispus)	Pepper Dulse (Osmundea pinnatifida)
Catanella a red alga	Boot Lace (Chorda filum)	Gutweed Enteromorpha	Bladder Wrack (Fucus vesiculosus)
Corallina officinalis	Dabberlocks (Alaria esculenta)	Thongweed (d	Laver (Porphyra)
Channel wrack (Pelvetia canaliculata)	Saw Wrack	Twisted or Spiral Wrack	Furbellows (Saccorhiza polyschides)
Encrusting Red Algae	Ceramium spp	Cladophora rupestris	Dulse (Palmaria palmata)
Polysiphonia	Sea Lettuce (Ulva lettuca)	Mastocarpus

Lichens

Lichen Lichina pygmaea

White & Grey Lichen

Tar lichens

Yellow & Orange Lichea

Sea ivory lichen

Click here for the special Lichen Thumbnail page for much more lichen detail

 

 

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All images are Copyright Julian Cremona, Dale Fort