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How and where to look Help to look after Where to find out more The tides of the sea on our beaches do not always B. ooks & Guides: Discover Exmoor’s Seashores… go up and down to the same level. When the Sun and seashore wildlife Exmoor’s wild coast has some of the most extreme tides in the l Exploring the seashore is fun, but please be gentle A Guide To Finding Seashore & Rockpool the Moon are in line with the Earth their world. Twice a day the sea retreats, exposing a wonderful world of with the creatures you find, poking or squeezing Life in Somerset by Nigel Phillips gravitational pull will give us very low tides and very creatures can harm them. Respect all sea life. The Rockpool Guide by John Walters rockpools and boulders. high tides. Very low tides, known as spring tides, l Carefully replace any rocks you have lifted, come round regularly every month. Spring tides are animals underneath need them for shelter. Collins gem: Seashore These rocky shores are home to a when the sea drops to the very lowest point on the l Don’t put lots of creatures together in a bucket All are available in our National Park Centres in beach and this can be a great chance to explore for fascinating range of plants and creatures of water as they may fight or eat each other. Lynmouth, Dunster and Dulverton, and you can marine wildlife that are specially adapted to the challenges l Put all creatures back in the rockpools as soon also pick up a free Exmoor rockpool poster. not often seen. as possible to avoid them overheating. Please Spring tides are of living between the land and the sea. don’t take them away with you. Come on a Seaside Safari: your best chance Living on the seashore is tough. Twice a day the Exmoor National Park run regular Seaside Safaris in to look for things sea retreats leaving the shore exposed to sun and Keeping safe Lynmouth throughout the school summer holidays, such as starfish, Never underestimate the power of the sea, the tide search the events calendar on our website for details: wind, cold and rain. Waves break on the shore squid eggs and can rise very quickly up the beach and you can and powerful tides sweep the beaches. The sponges. suddenly find powerful waves washing around you! www.exmoor-nationalpark.gov.uk/enjoying/events But with care and planning you can keep safe. animals and plants that live here have evolved to Common Hermit Crab Rockpools on any be able to survive these challenging conditions part of the beach l Check tide times to avoid being cut off. l and make the shore their home. Limpets cling tightly to the rocks in a perfectly fitting groove. are worth exploring, especially at the lowest point of Only go rockpooling as the tide is going out. the tide when they will be exposed to the air for the l Rocks can be very slippery - always wear This keeps them safe from predators and strong waves, until they shortest time. These pools will stay nice and cool and footwear with good grip. Don’t go on your own. Contact us: emerge at high tide to graze on algae from the rocks. Many will often have the richest array of marine wildlife. Exmoor National Par k Authority animals seek the shelter of a moist rock or boulder to Exmoor House Seaweeds are worth looking at in their own right, Dulverton sit out the dry hours and these can be but it is well worth gently turning seaweeds over to Somerse t, TA22 9HL great places to discover crabs, fish see what might be living beneath them. Telephone: 01 398 323665 and a wealth of other creatures. Looking under rocks and boulders can be very Social media: @exmoornp worthwhile. Many small fish and crabs will be found info@exmoo r-nationalpark.gov.uk As well as animals, an amazing range by gently lifting big rocks. Also the underside of rocks of seaweeds can be found on the and boulders may have starfish clinging to them and Special thanks to Nigel Phillips for providing text and species photographs. Exmoor coast. Higher up the beach many colonial animals like sea squirts, bryozoans and species such as spiral wrack and sponges encrust the undersides of rocks. channelled wrack are common, while Don’t rush! A lot of rockpool wildlife, and under- lower down the shore and in the stones animals, will have rapidly hidden themselves away when you approached. Spend time watching, rockpools you can discover red Some of our favourite places to look for keeping very still. Fish and crabs will often move back seashore wildlife on Exmoor’s coast are www.exmoo r-nationalpark.gov.uk seaweeds such as dulse and corallina. Edible Crab out from a hidden crevice if you give them time. Lynmouth, Combe Martin (above) and Lee Bay.
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How and where to look Help to look after Where to find out more The tides of the sea on our beaches do not always B. ooks & Guides: Discover Exmoor’s Seashores… go up and down to the same level. When the Sun and seashore wildlife Exmoor’s wild coast has some of the most extreme tides in the l Exploring the seashore is fun, but please be gentle A Guide To Finding Seashore & Rockpool the Moon are in line with the Earth their world. Twice a day the sea retreats, exposing a wonderful world of with the creatures you find, poking or squeezing Life in Somerset by Nigel Phillips gravitational pull will give us very low tides and very creatures can harm them. Respect all sea life. The Rockpool Guide by John Walters rockpools and boulders. high tides. Very low tides, known as spring tides, l Carefully replace any rocks you have lifted, come round regularly every month. Spring tides are animals underneath need them for shelter. Collins gem: Seashore These rocky shores are home to a when the sea drops to the very lowest point on the l Don’t put lots of creatures together in a bucket All are available in our National Park Centres in beach and this can be a great chance to explore for fascinating range of plants and creatures of water as they may fight or eat each other. Lynmouth, Dunster and Dulverton, and you can marine wildlife that are specially adapted to the challenges l Put all creatures back in the rockpools as soon also pick up a free Exmoor rockpool poster. not often seen. as possible to avoid them overheating. Please Spring tides are of living between the land and the sea. don’t take them away with you. Come on a Seaside Safari: your best chance Living on the seashore is tough. Twice a day the Exmoor National Park run regular Seaside Safaris in to look for things sea retreats leaving the shore exposed to sun and Keeping safe Lynmouth throughout the school summer holidays, such as starfish, Never underestimate the power of the sea, the tide search the events calendar on our website for details: wind, cold and rain. Waves break on the shore squid eggs and can rise very quickly up the beach and you can and powerful tides sweep the beaches. The sponges. suddenly find powerful waves washing around you! www.exmoor-nationalpark.gov.uk/enjoying/events But with care and planning you can keep safe. animals and plants that live here have evolved to Common Hermit Crab Rockpools on any be able to survive these challenging conditions part of the beach l Check tide times to avoid being cut off. l and make the shore their home. Limpets cling tightly to the rocks in a perfectly fitting groove. are worth exploring, especially at the lowest point of Only go rockpooling as the tide is going out. the tide when they will be exposed to the air for the l Rocks can be very slippery - always wear This keeps them safe from predators and strong waves, until they shortest time. These pools will stay nice and cool and footwear with good grip. Don’t go on your own. Contact us: emerge at high tide to graze on algae from the rocks. Many will often have the richest array of marine wildlife. Exmoor National Par k Authority animals seek the shelter of a moist rock or boulder to Exmoor House Seaweeds are worth looking at in their own right, Dulverton sit out the dry hours and these can be but it is well worth gently turning seaweeds over to Somerse t, TA22 9HL great places to discover crabs, fish see what might be living beneath them. Telephone: 01 398 323665 and a wealth of other creatures. Looking under rocks and boulders can be very Social media: @exmoornp worthwhile. Many small fish and crabs will be found info@exmoo r-nationalpark.gov.uk As well as animals, an amazing range by gently lifting big rocks. Also the underside of rocks of seaweeds can be found on the and boulders may have starfish clinging to them and Special thanks to Nigel Phillips for providing text and species photographs. Exmoor coast. Higher up the beach many colonial animals like sea squirts, bryozoans and species such as spiral wrack and sponges encrust the undersides of rocks. channelled wrack are common, while Don’t rush! A lot of rockpool wildlife, and under- lower down the shore and in the stones animals, will have rapidly hidden themselves away when you approached. Spend time watching, rockpools you can discover red Some of our favourite places to look for keeping very still. Fish and crabs will often move back seashore wildlife on Exmoor’s coast are www.exmoo r-nationalpark.gov.uk seaweeds such as dulse and corallina. Edible Crab out from a hidden crevice if you give them time. Lynmouth, Combe Martin (above) and Lee Bay.
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How and where to look Help to look after Where to find out more The tides of the sea on our beaches do not always B. ooks & Guides: Discover Exmoor’s Seashores… go up and down to the same level. When the Sun and seashore wildlife Exmoor’s wild coast has some of the most extreme tides in the l Exploring the seashore is fun, but please be gentle A Guide To Finding Seashore & Rockpool the Moon are in line with the Earth their world. Twice a day the sea retreats, exposing a wonderful world of with the creatures you find, poking or squeezing Life in Somerset by Nigel Phillips gravitational pull will give us very low tides and very creatures can harm them. Respect all sea life. The Rockpool Guide by John Walters rockpools and boulders. high tides. Very low tides, known as spring tides, l Carefully replace any rocks you have lifted, come round regularly every month. Spring tides are animals underneath need them for shelter. Collins gem: Seashore These rocky shores are home to a when the sea drops to the very lowest point on the l Don’t put lots of creatures together in a bucket All are available in our National Park Centres in beach and this can be a great chance to explore for fascinating range of plants and creatures of water as they may fight or eat each other. Lynmouth, Dunster and Dulverton, and you can marine wildlife that are specially adapted to the challenges l Put all creatures back in the rockpools as soon also pick up a free Exmoor rockpool poster. not often seen. as possible to avoid them overheating. Please Spring tides are of living between the land and the sea. don’t take them away with you. Come on a Seaside Safari: your best chance Living on the seashore is tough. Twice a day the Exmoor National Park run regular Seaside Safaris in to look for things sea retreats leaving the shore exposed to sun and Keeping safe Lynmouth throughout the school summer holidays, such as starfish, Never underestimate the power of the sea, the tide search the events calendar on our website for details: wind, cold and rain. Waves break on the shore squid eggs and can rise very quickly up the beach and you can and powerful tides sweep the beaches. The sponges. suddenly find powerful waves washing around you! www.exmoor-nationalpark.gov.uk/enjoying/events But with care and planning you can keep safe. animals and plants that live here have evolved to Common Hermit Crab Rockpools on any be able to survive these challenging conditions part of the beach l Check tide times to avoid being cut off. l and make the shore their home. Limpets cling tightly to the rocks in a perfectly fitting groove. are worth exploring, especially at the lowest point of Only go rockpooling as the tide is going out. the tide when they will be exposed to the air for the l Rocks can be very slippery - always wear This keeps them safe from predators and strong waves, until they shortest time. These pools will stay nice and cool and footwear with good grip. Don’t go on your own. Contact us: emerge at high tide to graze on algae from the rocks. Many will often have the richest array of marine wildlife. Exmoor National Par k Authority animals seek the shelter of a moist rock or boulder to Exmoor House Seaweeds are worth looking at in their own right, Dulverton sit out the dry hours and these can be but it is well worth gently turning seaweeds over to Somerse t, TA22 9HL great places to discover crabs, fish see what might be living beneath them. Telephone: 01 398 323665 and a wealth of other creatures. Looking under rocks and boulders can be very Social media: @exmoornp worthwhile. Many small fish and crabs will be found info@exmoo r-nationalpark.gov.uk As well as animals, an amazing range by gently lifting big rocks. Also the underside of rocks of seaweeds can be found on the and boulders may have starfish clinging to them and Special thanks to Nigel Phillips for providing text and species photographs. Exmoor coast. Higher up the beach many colonial animals like sea squirts, bryozoans and species such as spiral wrack and sponges encrust the undersides of rocks. channelled wrack are common, while Don’t rush! A lot of rockpool wildlife, and under- lower down the shore and in the stones animals, will have rapidly hidden themselves away when you approached. Spend time watching, rockpools you can discover red Some of our favourite places to look for keeping very still. Fish and crabs will often move back seashore wildlife on Exmoor’s coast are www.exmoo r-nationalpark.gov.uk seaweeds such as dulse and corallina. Edible Crab out from a hidden crevice if you give them time. Lynmouth, Combe Martin (above) and Lee Bay. Key to what’s what: Beadlet Anemone Strawberry Anemone Snakelocks Anemone Sea Anemones Crustaceans Actinea equine Actinia fragacea Anemoni viridis C Habitat: Middle and lower shore C Habitat: Lower shore C Habitat: Lower shore Where to look All beaches with rocks and Where to look On rocks, under rock overhangs Where to look In rock pools Sponges boulders. On rocks, in rock pools, under rock and under large boulders and under large boulders Marine Molluscs: overhangs and under large boulders. Description At first glance similar and rock overhangs. with one shell Description Usually coloured a dark red but can to the Beadlet anemone but Description Usually the Marine Worms also be orange or green. The name beadlet grows larger than that tentacles are green comes from the blue, beadlike, stinging organs species, and the with purple tips, but with two shells that encircle the column just below the tentacles. green dots can be a pale brown or Size Diameter up to 5cm. on the grey. The green Cephalopods (bivalves) column Snakelocks have algae are easy living within their Bryozoans to spot tissues in a symbiotic Echinoderms Size relationship, causing the Diameter strong green colour. Chance of seeing: Very Common Common Uncommon V C U Ascidians (Sea Squirts) Fish up to 8cm. Size Diameter up to 6cm. Please note: illustrations not to scale. Breadcrumb Sponge Keel Worm Common Cuttlefish Common Starfish Common Brittlestar Baked Bean Ascidian Star Ascidian Halichondria panicea Pomatoceros triqueter Sepia officinalis Asterias rubens Ophiothrix fragilis Dendrodoa grossularia Botryllus Schlosseri C Habitat: Lower shore V Habitat: Lower shore and subtidal C Habitat: Adults live offshore C Habitat: Lower shore C Habitat: Lower shore C Habitat: Lower shore U Habitat: Lower shore Where to look All beaches with rocks and boulders. Where to look On rocks and boulders. Where to look Cuttlefish shells may be found Where to look In rockpools and Where to look Under stones Where to look All beaches with rocks & boulders, Where to look On and under boulders and also in crevices. Description This small worm secretes a grey/ along tidelines of all beaches. under large stones. and amongst sometimes on the base of the stem of bigger Under rock Description Can be dull yellow/orange, grey/ white, triangular in section tube, that increases in Description Distinctive white elongated oval Description Pale brown/orange boulders. seaweeds and also on mollusc shells. overhangs and white and green. Forms irregular shaped mats diameter as the worm matures. When the tide is in internal shell, up to 20cm. and with short white spines in Description Description Individuals are orange/red and large boulders with volcano like oscula its feathery, orange, Adult Cuttlefish have an oval body with side fins, lines down the Often baked bean sized. Description (holes) which are part of feeding tentacles large eyes, and short tentacles. Usually mottled arms. Has five orange and Size Colonies may cover only a few square Distinctive its feeding system. emerge. streaky brown very stout yellow centimetres on the seashore. groups of Sometimes has a more Size Length but can arms. banded along between 6 - 13 spikey appearance. of tube to change Size Diameter the legs, but beige/white, Several other very similar 2.5cm colour rapidly including arms to can be much sometimes yellow, sponges also occur here. Filter to match 30cm duller fawn and brown zooides forming star Size Width to 30cm in Feeds on background. Feeds on molluscs banded. Very spiny on the shaped clusters in a gelatinous body that is sheltered conditions and plankton. Size Adult to and the bigger body and legs. Delicate. transparent grey or purple. much bigger offshore. Cuttlefish shell 35cm. marine worms. Size Diameter including legs up to 8cm. Size Forms patches to 8cm across.
Edible Crab Common (or Green) Shore Crab Velvet Swimming Crab Common Hermit Crab Broad-clawed Porcelain Crab Acorn Barnacle Volcano Barnacle Cancer pagurus Carcinus maenas Necora puber Pagarus bernhardus Porcellana platycheles Semibalanus balanoides Balanus perforates C Habitat: Lower shore V Habitat: Middle and lower shore C Habitat: Lower shore V Habitat: Middle and lower shore C Habitat: Lower shore V Habitat: Middle shore C Habitat: Lower shore Where to look Under rocks and boulders and Where to look All beaches. Buried in mud, Where to look Under seaweed, rocks and boulders. Where to look All beaches. Found in rockpools Where to look Under rocks and boulders. Where to look All beaches with rocks & boulders. Where to look All beaches often half buried in the gravel/sand. in rock pools, under seaweed, under Description Distinctive crab with red eyes and and amongst rocks and boulders but also on Description Tiny crab that is Description Ivory white. Has six shell plates and with rocks and boulders. Description Distinctive “pie crust” shaped rocks and boulders. blue/purple marking on legs and pincers. sandy beaches. very well camouflaged by the aperture is diamond shaped. Description Dirty white, carapace and pink/brown colour make this a Description This is the most likely Size Carapace width to 6cm Description Occupies a range of shells including the silt covered hairs on its As barnacles mature the sometimes slightly fairly easy crab to identify. The powerful black crab you will find along the An active predator feeding Periwinkles and Dog Whelks. Bigger specimens carapace and legs which shell plates may purple. A very tipped pincers are also distinctive. Only young shore. Very variable in colour, on smaller crabs, fish, are usually in Whelk shells. When facing you the make it look very become fused making substantial barnacle crabs aged around 3-4 years are usually found often green but also red/ molluscs and left leg has the much bigger claw. muddy. Can be hard to it hard to count them. and as the name on the lower shore, larger mature crabs brown and sometimes almost worms. Size Carapace spot on the underside of A hand lens is vital to implies volcano live out in deeper water. Edible Crabs black with dull yellow blotches. length to 3cm a turned over rock sorting them. shaped and with can live to 100 years. Size Very small, 1cm-2cm Feeds on small despite them often The Kiwi Barnacle an oval Size Carapace width to 20cm crabs may be even more live prey and clustering together in Elminus modestus with aperture. Has Feeds on: They catch small variable in colour including white and orange. also carrion. good numbers. four shell plates also six shell plates. live prey including other Carapace width to 10cm. Size Carapace width occurs. Size Diameter crabs but also feed on carrion. Feeds on worms, molluscs small fish and carrion. to 1.5cm. Size Diameter to 1cm. to 3cm.
Grey Chiton Spiny Chiton Common Limpet Blue-rayed Limpet Thick (or Common) Top Shell Painted Top Shell Flat (or Purple) Top Shell Lepidochitona cinereus Acanthochitona crinita Patella vulgata Hecion pellucidium Osilinus lineatus Calliostoma zizyphinum Gibbula umbilicalis C Habitat: Lower shore U Habitat: Lower shore V Habitat: Upper and middle shore U Habitat: Lower shore and sub-tidal V Habitat: Middle and lower shore U Habitat: Lower shore V Habitat: Middle and lower shore Where to look All beaches with rocks and stones. Where to look In rock pools, on and under rocks. Where to look All rocky beaches. On rocks and Where to look Found on kelp stems and holdfasts Where to look In rock pools and on rocks & boulders Where to look In rock pools and under seaweed. Where to look Rock pools and under seaweed On and under rocks, sometimes on bigger Description A robust looking shell, mottled pale boulders and in rockpools. which they partly burrow into as they feed. Description Heavy shelled mollusc with dense Description Very distinctive steep pointed shell Description Slightly squashed looking, flat seaweeds. green and brown and with a distinct fringe of Description Neat conical shape and grey-white Description A neat oval shiny amber dull purple brown zig-zag pattern. with bright pinky topped shell with bright purple bands over a Description Dark yellow/brown with some clumped bristles and spines in colour. The inside of the coloured shell with bright blue Shell opening has an obvious purple and red streaks grey-green background. Has a distinctive large darker markings mottling the shell. Size Length up to 3cm. shell is green/grey. lines and spots. small tooth like projection. Top with a pale brown- umbilicus (hole) in the centre of the underside of The shells of all our Chitons Mainly grazes on algae but also on bryozoans The sole of the The blue lines and spots of shell often white background. the shell. are articulated by eight and other colonial mat animals. foot is yellow/ fade quickly on empty worn and The Grey Top Shell Size Height plates. Also known as orange. Can shells found washed showing Gibbula cineraria up to 2cm. Coat of Mail Shells. live up to ashore. mother also occurs on the Feeds on Size Length to fifteen years. Size Length up to of pearl. lower shore. algae. 2.5cm. Size Length to 1.5cm. Size Size Height up to 6cm. Feeds on the stems Height up 3cm. Feeds by grazing of large algae to 3cm. on algae. like Oarweed. Feeds on algae.
Common Periwinkle Flat Periwinkle Sting Winkle Common Whelk Dog Whelk Netted Dog Whelk Common Mussel Littorina littorea Littorina obtusata Ocenebra erinacea Baccinum undatum Nucella lapillus Hinia reticulate Mytilus edulis V Habitat: Upper, middle and lower shore C Habitat: Middle and lower shore C Habitat: Lower shore C Habitat: Lower shore C Habitat: Middle and lower shore C Habitat: Middle and lower shore C Habitat: Lower shore Where to look All beaches Where to look All beaches with rocks and Where to look: In rock pools and amongst seaweeds Where to look All beaches. Most often found Where to look All beaches with rocks & boulders Where to look In rock pools and amongst seaweeds Where to look Attached to rocks and in crevices with rocks and boulders boulders and usually amongst brown seaweeds Description: Distinctive pointed and sculpted washed up as an empty shell along the tideline. Description A heavy, pointed, and often rather Description A robust fawn to brown-grey shell between rocks and boulders. Description A heavy Description A small flattened shell that is often shell, yellow - white The white spongy egg masses are also a regular rough shell that can be very variable in colour with well marked groves and ribs. The empty Description Distinctive blue purple/black colour, rounded shell, yellow but dull red, olive green, brown-black Size Length to 5cm. find along the tideline. including white, pink & black and also with brown shell of this species is very often often found clinging to rocks. Shells commonly smooth and ones also found. The very Feeds on bivalves and barnacles. Description A distinctive large yellow-white stripes. In spring and early summer large clusters of occupied by Hermit crabs. Netted washed up on tideline. pointed and small yellow eggs, in a shell. Small Whelks can be differentiated from their distinctive yellowish eggs may be found glued Dog Whelk eggs, pinky/ Size Length to 6cm. coloured dark flattened gelatinous Dog Whelks by their onto rocks and boulders on the lower shore. white and enclosed in a Filter feeds on brown-black and blob can often be much thinner shell. Size Length to 3cm. very small translucent microscopic often with thin found glued onto Size Length up to 11 cm. Feeds on Barnacles flattened capsule, plankton. white bands, top Toothed Wrack, Feeds on tube and Mussels. can often be found of spire and other dwelling worms, glued to rocks or sometimes lighter seaweeds. limpets, cockles and stems of in colour. Size Height to other bivalves and also seaweeds. Size Height to 3cm. 1cm. carrion. Size Length to 3cm.
Common Sea Mat Hornwrack Lesser Spotted Dogfish egg case Shore Clingfish Shanny Sand Goby Common Cockle Membranipora membranacea Flustra foliacea Scyliorhinus caniculata Lepadogaster lepadogaster Lipophrys pholis Pomatoschistus minutus Cerastoderma edule C Habitat: Middle and lower shore C Habitat: Lower shore C Habitat: Washed up along the tideline U Habitat: Lower shore C Habitat: Lower shore C Habitat: Middle and lower shore C Habitat: lower shore in sand Where to look All beaches with rocks and seaweed. Where to look Grows anchored to rock and Where to look All beaches. Where to look In rock pools, under rocks and Where to look All beaches with rock pools and Where to look All beaches with sand and rock pools. Where to look All beaches with sand. Most often Description Dirty white and forms large and often boulders, mostly subtidal. Most often found Description Golden brown when fresh, may turn amongst boulders. boulders. Often found under large stones and Description Pale sandy brown with small dark dots found dead and washed up along the tideline elongated patches on seaweed fronds. Found on washed up along black as they dry out. Has long curling Description Distinctive mottled Pinky yellow/ amongst boulders. all over the body. The two dorsal fins are clearly Description Dirty the larger brown and red seaweeds. The the tideline. tendrils which secure it to seaweeds orange and Description Marbled brown/grey, sometimes separated. Unless they move they can be very white and with 24 individual cells, zooids, are elongated rectangles. Description etc. This species may lay up to with two almost black. Has one long dorsal fin along the hard to see when resting on sand in a or so rough Size Forms patches up to 30cm long. Brown/grey 100 of these eggs a year. blue spots back with a dip in it half way along. rockpool. radiating ridges. to pale Often called Mermaids’ behind Has no scales and in Size Length to 6cm. Classic cockle fawn. Has Purses. the consequence looks shape is easy to very thin flat Size Length of egg: eyes. rather slimy out identify. leathery 5cm. Lesser Has a of water. Size Width to branching fronds Spotted very broad Has very large 4cm. with rounded tips. Dogfish head which rapidly pectoral fins. Filter feeds on Size Length to 20cm. grow to tapers towards the tail. Size Length to 13cm. plankton. 75cm. Size Length to 8cm.