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Cnidaria: Anthozoa
Photographs by Ron Barrett.
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30
March 2002
Lancing
beach proved
to be an exceptional discovery. The small patch of loose sponge-covered
flint rocks with small bits of chalk proved unusually rich in small rockpool
life at the very low tide (TQ
018 034). Katherine
Hamblett spotted
and Tacita French
caught
a Tompot Blenny, a small fish that is unusual
between the tides. I made hundreds of visits to the shore before I ever
caught one.
The
beach was home to five species of sea anemones
including large Dahlia
Anemones and frequent Snakelocks
Anemones, enough to identify this location as the most easterly
regular location of this sea anemone on the northern English Channel.
The Pimplet
Anemone was also discovered, another anemone species that has never
been recorded this far east before.
Full
Report
BMLSS
Sea Anemones
British Marine Life Study Society Homepage.