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Phylum; Echinodermata

Class; Ophiuroidea

Genus; Ophiura

Species; Ophiura

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Phylum; Echinodermata

Class; Asteroidea

Genus;

Species;

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Phylum; Mollusca

Class; Gastropoda

Genus; Patella

Species; Vulgata

NOTE; pink foot = patella ulyssiponesis

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Phylum; Echinodermata

Class; Echinoidea

Genus; Echinus

Species; esculentus

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Common. No dip in join. Less ruffled plates.

Phylum; Arthropoda

Class; Hexanauplia

Genus; Semibalanus

Species; balanoides

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Not found on NE. Dip in join. More ruffles plates.

  • Phylum; Arthropoda
  • Class; Hexanauplia
  • Genus; Chthamalus
  • Species; Montagui
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Shore crab Adults dark green

  • Phylum; Arthropoda
  • Class; Malacostraca
  • Genus; Carcinus
  • Species; maenas
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Round featureless, reddish brown carapace. Black chelae. Looks like a Cornish pasty.

  • Phylum; Arthropoda
  • Class; Malacostraca
  • Genus; Cancer
  • Species; pagurus
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Greyish brown on top Dirty yellow beneath Pereopods heavily setose.

  • Phylum; Arthropoda
  • Class; Malacostraca
  • Genus; Porcellana
  • Species; Platyches
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Greenish tinted

  • Phylum; Arthropoda
  • Class; Malacostraca
  • Genus; Diogenes
  • Species; Pugilator
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Devil crab

  • Phylum; Arthropoda
  • Class; Malacostraca
  • Genus; Necora
  • Species; Puber
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Common intertidal. Big and dark red/ brown. Violet tips of spines.

  • Phylum; Echinodermata
  • Class; Echinoidea
  • Genus; Psammechinus
  • Species; Miliaris
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  • Phylum; Mollusca
  • Class; Gastropoda
  • Genus; Nucella
  • Species; Lapillus
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  • Phylum; Mollusca
  • Class; Gastropoda
  • Genus; Littorina
  • Species; Littorea
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  • Phylum; Arthropoda
  • Class; Malacostraca
  • Genus; Pisidia
  • Species; Longicornis

Small carapace = >1cm\

Unequal chelipeds

Long and slender antennae

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Phylum; Echinodermata

Class; Ophuroided

Genus; Ophiothrix

Species; fragilis

2 cm disc, dark horizontal bands on arms, orange gonads expand ventral side between arms.

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Phylum; Chordata

Class; Ascidiarcea

Genus; Ciona

Species; Intestinalis

Soft translucent test, pale yellow-green, cylindrical

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  • Ochrophyta
  • Phaeophyceae
  • Laminaria digitata
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  • Ochrophyta
  • Phaeophyceae
  • Fucus serratus
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  • Ochrophyta
  • Phaeophyceae
  • Saccharina latissima
  1. Long unidivided frond.
  2. No midrib.
  3. Short stipe.
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  • Ochrophyta
  • Phaeophycecae
  • Laminaria hyperborea
  1. Stiff, rough, texured, oval stipe.
  2. Broad, tough, flat blade which is divided into 5-20 straps.
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  • Ochrophyta
  • Phaeophyceae
  • Fucus vesiculosis
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  • Ochrophyta
  • Phaeophyceae
  • Fucus spiralis
  1. ridge along recpeticles
  2. no air bladders
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  • Ochrophyta
  • Phaeophyceae
  • Ascophyllum nodosum
  1. Long strap like frond
  2. No air bladders
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  • Rhodophyta
  • Florideophyceae
  • Polysiphonia lanosa
  1. Epiphyte on ascophyllum nodosum
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  • Ochrophyta
  • Phaeophytaceae
  • Pelvetia canaliculata
  1. Fronds are curled longitudinally
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  • Rhodophyta
  • Florideophyceae
  • Mastocarpus stellatus
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  • Rhodophyta
  • Florideophyceae
  • Chondrus crispus
  1. purpleish / red
  2. dichotomous fronds
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  • Rhodophyta
  • Florideophyceae
  • Osmundea pinnatifida
  1. alternate branching
  2. branches becoming shorter towards apex
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  • Rhodophyta
  • Florideophyceae
  • Osmundea hybrida
  1. dark purpleish to greenish yellow fronds
  2. mostly alternate branching
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  • Mollusca
  • Gastropoda
  • Littorina saxatilis
  1. rougher shell than L.littorea
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  • Mollusca
  • Gastropoda
  • Littorina obtusata
  1. body whirl slightly larger than aperture
  2. flat top with minimal spire
  3. smaller aperture and taller spire than littorina mariae
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  • Rhodophyta
  • Florideophyceae
  • Gelidium
  1. genus of thalloid red algae
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  • Rhodophyta
  • Florideophyceae
  • Dumontia contorta
  1. discoid base
  2. tubular, cylindrical or compressed
  3. irregulay branched
  4. axis and branches tapered at both ends, irregulay swollen and often twisted
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  • Mollusca
  • Gastropoda
  • Littorina mariae
  1. apperture larger (hangs down) and body whirl even flatter than littorina obtusata (no step up)
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  • Mollusca
  • Gastropoda
  • Gibbula cineraria
  1. fine purple stripes
  2. grey topped
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  • Mollusca
  • Gasropoda
  • Gibbula umbilicalis
  1. broad diagonal reddish / purple stripes
  2. silver topped
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  • Chlorohyta
  • Ulvophyceae
  • Cladophora rupestris
  1. densely tufted
  2. coarse feel
  3. thallus is uniserate
  4. cell in a single row
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  • Chlorophyta
  • Ulvophyceae
  • Cladophora pellucida
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  • Chlorophyta
  • Ulvophyceae
  • Ulva lactuca
  1. broad crumpled frond
  2. tough and translucent
  3. disc like holdfast
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  • Chlorophyta
  • Ulvophyceae
  • Ulva lactuca
  1. gut weed
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  • Chlorophyta
  • Ulvophyceae
  • Chaetomorpha linum
  1. bright green
  2. filaments are stiff and curled
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  • Annelida
  • Polychaeta
  • Pomatoceros triqueter
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  • Annelida
  • Polychaeta
  • Spirorbis
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  • Cnidaria
  • Anthozoa
  • Actina equina
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  • Bryazoa
  • Gymnolaemata
  • Membraniporidae membranacea
  1. lact patches
  2. smooth and round
  3. rectangular zooids
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  • Bryazoa
  • Gymnolaemata
  • Electra pilosa
  1. half of the front of the zooid calcified
  2. jagged
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  • Ochrophyta
  • Pheophyceae
  • Saccorhiza polyschides
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  • Echinodermata
  • Ophiuroidea
  • Ophiura ophiura
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  • Porifera
  • Demospongiae
  • Halichondria panicea
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  • Cnidaria
  • Anthozoa
  • Alcyonium digitatum
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  • Rhodophyta
  • Florideophyceae
  • Corallina officinalis

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