Below is the final list of all the various species found during my investigation of the 10 sites. I spent 30 minutes at each site as part of the survey (an equal amount of time for each site to allow for a statistical comparison).
The lefthand side has the scientific names with the Genus and Species eg. Fucus (genus) vesiculosus (species). In a number of cases you will see a name given as spp. eg Ulva spp.; this just means that I couldn't indentify the find down to species level and it's simply listed as Ulva "species". Some organisms require experts to be identified to species level and I am definitely not one of them.
| Name |
Common
name / Pointers to ID |
Fucus vesiculosus
|
Bladder wrack
|
Fucus serratus
|
Serrated wrack
|
Ulva spp.
|
Sea lettuces and Gut weeds (Hollow)
|
Corallina spp.
|
Calcified red algae/ Coral weeds
|
Ralfsia
|
Brown limpet paint
|
Saccharrina latissima
|
Sugar kelp/Sea belt
|
Mastocarpus stellatus
|
Grape pip weed
|
Chondrus crispus
|
Irish moss
|
Lomentaria articulata
|
Bunny ears/ Bunny-eared bead weed
|
Sacchoriza polyschides
|
Furbellows
|
Bifurcaria bifurcata
|
Brown tuning fork weed/Brown forking
weed
|
Laminaria digitata
|
Oar weed
|
Palmaria palmata
|
Dulse
|
Osmundea spp.
|
Flat fern weeds
|
Lithothamnion complex
|
Pink paint weeds/Maerls
|
Leathesia difformis
|
Punctured ball weed (mushes when
broken)
|
Colpomenia peregrina
|
Oyster thief (Splits when broken)
|
Ceramium spp.
|
Banded pincer weeds
|
Polysiphonia spp.
|
Siphon weeds
|
Phycodrys rubens
|
Sea oak (Red)
|
Cytsoceira spp.
|
Bushy wracks
|
Chorda filum
|
Mermaids tresses/Bootlace weed
|
Fucus spiralis
|
Spiraled wrack
|
Ascophyllum nodosum
|
Egg wrack/Knotted wrack
|
Polysiphonia lanosa
|
Epiphyte on A. nodosum
|
Dichyota dichotoma
|
Divided net weed ( like a finer,
brown C.crispus )
|
Rhodothamniella floridula
|
Sand binder
|
Patella vulgata
|
Common limpet
|
Semibalanus balanoides
|
Acorn barnacle
|
Chthamalus montagui
|
Montagu's stellate barnacle
|
Chthamalus stellatus
|
Poli's stellate barnacle
|
Austrominius modestus
|
New zealand invasive barnacle
|
Gibbula umbilicalis
|
Flat top shell
|
Gibbula cineraria
|
Grey top shell
|
Hinia reticulata
|
Netted dog whelk
|
Nucella lapillis
|
Dog whelk
|
Littorina littorea
|
Common periwinkle
|
Littorina saxitilis
|
Rough periwinkle
|
L. obtusata or mariae
|
Flat periwinkle or L. mariae
|
Porcellana platycheles
|
Broad-clawed porcellain crab
|
Family -Panguroidea
|
Hermit crab |
Dendrodoa grossularia
|
Baked bean ascidian
|
Carcinus maenas
|
Common shore crab
|
Pomatoceros triqueter
|
A keel worm
|
Spirorbis spirorbis
|
A keel worm with spiral tube
|
Sabellaria alveolata
|
Honeycomb worm
|
Ctenostome bryozoan
|
Uncalcified soft to touch
|
Cheiliostome bryozoan
|
Calcified box-shaped crispy to touch
|
Cerastoderma edule
|
Common cockle
|
Mytilus edulis
|
Common mussel
|
Dynamena pumila
|
Hydrozoan on Fucus spp.
|
Ostrea edulis
|
Common oyster
|
Actinia equina
|
Beadlet anenome
|
Sphaeroma serratum
|
Isopod ( rolls into a ball) Serrated
uropod
|
Gammarus spp.
|
Amphipod ( black, kidney-shaped eye)
|
Venerupsis senegalensis
|
Carpet pullet shell
|
Lepidonotus spp.
|
Scaleworm (polychaete)
|
Necora puber
|
Devil crab( red eyes, blue dorsal),
velvet swimming crab
|
Lepidochitona cinerea
|
Chiton
|
Pholis gunnellus
|
Butterfish
|
Lineus longissimus
|
Bootlace worm
|
Palaemon spp.
|
Shrimp
|
If you are looking for any of these organisms and you overturn rocks to view them, don't forget to return the rock to it's original position to protect the animals sheltering underneath.
