Common Name: Acorn Barnacle
Species Name: Semibalanus balanoides
Size: thumbnail-less than 1.5 cm
Habitats: rock and boulders
Depth: 0-10 m,10-25 m,25 m
Sightings: 15
Common Name: Broad-clawed Porcelain Crab
Species Name: Porcellana platycheles
Size: finger tip to thumb joint 11-15 cm
Habitats: rock and boulders
Depth: 10-25 m
Sightings: 1
Common Name: Chameleon Prawn
Species Name: Hippolyte varians
Size: to first thumb joint 1.5-3 cm
Habitats: on other plants and animals
Depth: 0-10 m
Common Hermit Crab by Lawson Wood Ocean Eye Films is in copyright
Common Hermit Crab with Limacea clavigera nudibranch on shell by Lawson Wood Ocean Eye Films is in copyright
Common Name: Common Hermit Crab
Species Name: Pagurus bernhardus
Size: finger length 3-11 cm
Habitats: rock and boulders,cobbles and pebbles,sand and gravel,mud,on other plants and animals,wreckage
Depth: 0-10 m,10-25 m,25 m
Sightings: 16
Description: DID YOU KNOW: Hermit crabs don't grow their own shell? They inhabit empty marine snail shells and use them as their safe home to protect their soft bodies - until they get too big! They them must find a new home... even if that means taking a shell from another hermit crab!
Lobster by Lawson Wood Ocean Eye Films is in copyright
Common Lobster by Lawson Wood Ocean Eye Films is in copyright
Common Lobster by Lawson Wood Ocean Eye Films is in copyright
Homarus Gammarus Common Lobster by Lawson Wood Ocean Eye Films is in copyright
Common Name: Common Lobster
Species Name: Homarus gammarus
Size: finger tip to mid forearm 20-30 cm
Habitats: rock and boulders,wreckage
Depth: 0-10 m
Sightings: 95
Description: Homarus gammarus, known as the European lobster or common lobster, is a species of clawed lobster from the eastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and parts of the Black Sea. It is closely related to the American lobster. It may grow to a length of 60 cm (24 in) and a mass of 6 kilograms (13 lb) and bears a conspicuous pair of claws. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homarus_gammarus)
Common Prawn by Katherine Dunsford is in copyright
Lone Shrimp (Common Prawn) by Elizabeth Sanderson is in copyright
Common Name: Common Prawn
Species Name: Palaemon serratus
Size: finger length 3-11 cm
Habitats: rock and boulders,cobbles and pebbles,wreckage
Depth: 0-10 m,10-25 m
Sightings: 5
Common Name: Common Squat Lobster
Species Name: Galathea squamifera
Size: finger length 3-11 cm
Habitats: rock and boulders,cobbles and pebbles
Depth: 0-10 m
Description: The most common squat lobster species found in the UK. Look out for them on the mid to low rocky shore
Common Name: Edible Crab
Species Name: Cancer pagurus
Size: finger tip to wrist 15-20 cm
Habitats: rock and boulders,cobbles and pebbles,sand and gravel,wreckage
Depth: 0-10 m,10-25 m,25 m
Sightings: 136
Common Name: Four-horned Spider Crab
Species Name: Pisa tetraodon
Size: finger length 3-11 cm
Habitats: rock and boulders,cobbles and pebbles
Depth: 0-10 m
Common Name: Harlequin Shrimp
Species Name: Hymenocera
Long-clawed Porcelain Crab (Pisidia longicornis), Burnmouth Caves, St.Abbs & Eyemouth Marine Reserve. by Lawson Wood Ocean Eye Films is in copyright
Long clawed Squat Lobster (Munida rugosa) by Lawson Wood Ocean Eye Films is in copyright
Long-clawed Squat Lobster (Munida rugosa) by Lawson Wood Ocean Eye Films is in copyright
Long-clawed Squat Lobster (Munida rugosa) by Lawson Wood Ocean Eye Films is in copyright
Long-clawed squat lobster by Lawson Wood Ocean Eye Films is in copyright
Squat Lobster by Lawson Wood Ocean Eye Films is in copyright
Common Name: Long-clawed Squat Lobster
Species Name: Munida rugosa
Size: finger tip to wrist 15-20 cm
Habitats: rock and boulders,cobbles and pebbles,sand and gravel,mud,on other plants and animals,wreckage
Depth: 10-25 m,25 m
Sightings: 2
Common Name: Shore Crab
Species Name: Carcinus maenas
Size: finger length 3-11 cm
Habitats: rock and boulders,cobbles and pebbles,sand and gravel
Depth: 0-10 m
Description: Common Shore Crabs are the crab species you are most likely to encounter in the rockpools. They are usually green in colour, and have two arc-shaped lines on their shell (or carapace). Find them by carefully lifting rocks and seaweed, but remember to always put them back where they were hiding! Did You Know? Female crabs carry their eggs under her abdomen flab on the underside of her body. The eggs are usually orange in colour. Please take extra care if you come across any crab on the rocky shore carrying their precious eggs.
Spiny Squat Lobster by Lawson Wood Ocean Eye Films is in copyright
Spiny Squat Lobster with Bloody Henry Starfish by Lawson Wood Ocean Eye Films is in copyright
_8170191_edit001.jpg by Lawson Wood Ocean Eye Films is in copyright
Common Name: Spiny Squat Lobster
Species Name: Galathea strigosa
Size: finger length 3-11 cm
Habitats: rock and boulders,wreckage
Depth: 0-10 m,10-25 m,25 m
Sightings: 13
Velvet Swimming Crab on Dead Man's Fingers by Lawson Wood Ocean Eye Films is in copyright
Necora puber Velvet Swimming Crab by Lawson Wood Ocean Eye Films is in copyright
Velvet Swimming Crab eating juv by Lawson Wood Ocean Eye Films is in copyright
Common Name: Velvet Swimming Crab
Species Name: Necora puber
Size: finger tip to thumb joint 11-15 cm
Habitats: rock and boulders,cobbles and pebbles
Depth: 0-10 m,10-25 m
Sightings: 135
Common Name: Wolffish
Species Name: Anarhichas lupus
Size: length of body or more 150 cm plus
Depth: 25 m
Sightings: 11
Description: The wolffish, also known as sea wolves, are a family, Anarhichadidae, of perciform fish. They are native to cold waters of the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans, where they live on the continental shelf and slope, to depths of about 600 m (2,000 ft). They are bottom-feeders, eating hard-shelled invertebrates such as clams, echinoderms, and crustaceans, which they crush with their strong canine and molar teeth. The longest species, Anarrhichthys ocellatus, grows to more than 2 m (6.6 ft) in length. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarhichadidae
