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TIDAL POOLS LEGEND 1. DAY SHALLOW - BELOW LOW TIDE 1. Edible Crab Cancer pagurus 2. Great Scallop Pecten maximus 3. Light Bulb Sea Squirt Clavelina lepadiformis 4. Feather Star Antedon bifida 5. Cushion Star Porania pulvillus 6. Plaice Pleuronectes platessa 7. Common Sea Urchin Echinus esculentus 8. Corkwing Wrasse Crenilabrus melops 9. Octopus Octopus vulgaris 10. Snake Pipefish Entelurus aequoreus 11. Bootlace Weed or Mermaid’s Tresses Chorda filum 12. Cuvie or Forest Kelp Laminaria hyperborea 2. DAY BETWEEN HIGH AND LOW TIDE 1. Crawfish Palinurus elephas 2. Sea Slug Doto fragilis 3. Mussels Mytilus edulis 4. Sea Potato Echinocardium cordatum 5. Common Starfish Asterias rubens 6. Gutweed Enteramorpha intestinalis 7. Sea Lemon Archidoris pseudoaogus 8. Sand Eel Ammodytes tobianus 9. Lesser Spotted Dogfish Scyliorhinus canicula 10. Edible Cockle Cerastoderma edule 11. Hermit Crab Pagurus bernhardus 12. Sea Cucumber Pawsonia saxicola 13. Oysters Ostrea edulis 3. DAY ABOVE HIGH TIDE SEASHORE 1. Ragworm Nereis diversicolor 2. Tower Shell Turritella communis 3. Common Piddock Pholas dactylus 4. Ship Worm Teredo 5. Empty Oyster Shell Ostrea edulis 6. Hairy Crab Pilumnus hirtellus 7. Common Acorn Barnacle Balanus balanoides 8. Common Lizard Lacerta vivipara 9. Common Dog Whelk Buccinum undatum 10. Chitons Lepidopleurus asellus 11. Lichen Xanthoria parietina 12. Common Nutshell Nucula nucleus 13. Keel Worm Pomatoceros triqueter 14. Sand Hopper Talitrus saltator 15. Sea Holly Eryngium maritimum 16. Dogfish Egg Purse (Mermaid’s Purse) Scyliorhinus canicula 17. Bootlace Weed Chorda filum 18. Cockle Shell Cerastoderma edule 19. Periwinkle Littorina litterea 20. Common Otter Shell Lutraria lutraria 4. ROCK POOL 1. Lobster Homarus gammarus 2. Sea Slug Grelada elegans 3. Bladderwrack Seaweed Fucus vesiculosus 4. Common Limpet Patella vulgata 5. Common Shrimp Crangon crangon 6. Common Prawn Palaemon serratus 7. Butterfish Pholis gunnellus 8. Forest Kelp Laminaria hyperborea 9. Sea Hare Aplysia punctata 10. Shanny Lipophyris pholis 11. Sea Lettuce Ulva lactura 12. Strawberry Anemone Actinia fragacea 13. White Anemone Actininothoe sphyrodeta 14. Green Fronded Seaweed Enteromorpha intestinalis 15. Channelled Wrack Pelvetia canaliculata 16. Sea Mat Membranipora membranacea 17. Dulse Palmaria palmata 5. NIGHT - BETWEEN HIGH AND LOW TIDE 1. Pod Razor Shell Ensis siliqua 2. Thong Weed Himanthalia elongata 3. Spiny Spider Crab Maja squinado 4. Boring Sponge Cliona celata 5. Common Brittlestar Ophiothrix fragilis 6. Spiral Wrack Fucus spiralis 7. Thick-lipped Dog Whelk Nassarius incrassatus 8. Common Cuttlefish Sepia officinalis 9. Mussels Mytilus edulis 10. Sea Gherkin Cucumaria saxicola 11. Star Sea Squirt Botryllus schlosseri 12. Medusa (Juvenile Sea Fir) Neoturris pileata 13. Lugworm Arenicola marina 6. NIGHT - BELOW LOW TIDE 1. Jellyfish Cyanea lamarki 2. Sea horse Hippocampus ramulosus 3. Eel Grass Zostera marina 4. Sea Slug Bodalach 5. Peacock Worm Sabella pavonina 6. Sea Squirt Ascidiella aspersa 7. Squid 8. Blue-rayed Limpet Patina pellucida 9. Angler Fish Lophius piscatorius 10. Dabberlocks Alaria esculenta .

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