Welcome to The Seashore Code Help protect Devon’s special coastline by Wembury following the Seashore Code every time you go rockpooling. Right way up! Enjoy looking under rocks but always replace them carefully, just how you found them. Devon Wildlife Trust’s One at a time Guide to common seaweeds Always put seawater in your Wembury in South Devon is a magnet for wildlife bucket first and no more than one – its rocky cliffs are home to nesting seabirds and and rocky shore species creature at a time. the rocky shore, slate reefs and massive wave-cut platforms provide one of the United Kingdom’s best No nets! spots for marine life. Wembury and the surrounding Be gentle catching animals in coastline form a Marine Conservation Area (MCA), a rockpools – use your hands, not Special Area of Conservation (SAC), a Site of Special nets. Scientific Interest (SSSI) and form part of the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Put me back These go some way to shielding it from human Many animals have special homes pressures. so always return them to where they were found. Managed by Devon Wildlife Trust, Wembury Marine Centre is the ideal place to learn about the Watch your step! surrounding marine environment and its wildlife Take care not to damage seashore through regular rockpool and snorkel safaris, school creatures underfoot or by pulling visits and other marine-themed events. The Centre them off rocks. also explains the part you can play in protecting your local marine environment, following The Wildlife Be safe; be kind Trusts’ Living Seas strategy. Check tide times, avoid dangerous Visit www.wemburymarinecentre.org or email cliffs and slippery rocks, and [email protected] to find out more always take your litter home. about our Living Seas work and for details of our events or school bookings. Follow us on social media This guide was produced thanks to support and funding from the National Lottery Community Fund. Devon Wildlife Trust Cricklepit Mill, Commercial Road, Exeter, Devon EX2 4AB Tel: 01392 279244 Registered charity no 213224 Atlantic grey seal. Photo: Paul Naylor, www.marinephoto.co.uk Corkwing wrasse. Photo: Paul Naylor, www.marinephoto.co.uk www.devonwildlifetrust.org Protecting Wildlife for the Future Guide to Rocky shore animals Guide to Common seaweeds Coral Weed Corallina officinalis Beadlet anemone Beadlet anemone Strawberry anemone Snakelocks anemone Actinia equina (tentacles retracted) Actinia fragacea Anemonia viridis Cladophora rupestris Gutweed Sea lettuce Bladder wrack Ulva intestinalis Ulva lactuca Fucus vesiculosus Dog whelk Flat periwinkle Purple/Flat top shell Painted top shell Nucella lapillus Littorina obtusata Steromphala umbilicalis Calliostoma zizyphinum Shore crab Velvet swimming crab Edible crab Hermit crab Carcinus maenas Necora puber Cancer pagurus Pagarus bernhardus Channelled wrack Spiral wrack Pepper dulse Egg wrack Pelvetia canaliculata Fucus spiralis Osmundea pinnatifada Ascophyllum nodosum Shanny Rock goby Shore clingfish Worm pipefish Lipophrys pholis Gobius paganellus Lepadogaster lepadogaster Nerophis lumbiciformis Serrated wrack Laver Irish moss Dulse Fucus serratus Porphyra umbilicalis Chondrus crispus Palmaria palmata Cushion starfish Spiny starfish Common brittlestar Green sea urchin Asterina gibbosa Marthasterias glacialis Ophiothrix fragilis Psammechinus miliaris Oarweed Polysiphonia lanosa Sugar kelp Wireweed Common limpet Volcano barnacle Common prawn Green leaf worm Laminaria digitata (found on Egg wrack) Saccharina latissima Sargassum muticum; Patella vulgata Perforatus perforatus Palaemon serratus Eulalia viridis Common hermit crab - photo: Alex Mustard/2020Vision; Volcano barnacle - photo: Keith Hiscock; all other photos Paul Naylor, www.marinephoto.co.uk, and Ben Candlin. www.marinephoto.co.uk, barnacle - photo: Keith Hiscock; all other photos Paul Naylor, Volcano Common hermit crab - photo: Alex Mustard/2020Vision; a non-native species www.devonwildlifetrust.org Protecting Wildlife for the Future.