Above are a group of small calcifying worms living in a shell. They are all dextral, making them Spirorbis spirobis. To the right are some barnacles. I got quite into barnacles this holiday, having never really paid them any mind. Great guys though! There is Goose Barnacle and a Barnacle Goose (we saw neither). We did see loads of broken bits of what turned out to be a big (3cm) barnacle - Balanus porforatus - attached to smashed rocks etc. The top picture are some Acorn Barnacles - Semibalanus balanoides and below are come Wart Barnacles - Verruca stroemia, who I feel are much prettier than their name implies. |
I was convinced the above were foraminifera, but now that I look at them there are no chambers... they're worms (don't tell Schmidt). These guys are all sinstral making them Janua pagenstecheri, growing on some Coral Weed - Corallina officinalis. Some of the pools were smothered this encrusting red algae - Lithothamnion sp. It was growing right over seaweed and shells. | Bryozoan are so cool, and prevalent in the rock pools but were not mentioned in my coastal book once. Above is a mat form. Each little square on the Bladder Wrack is a single organisms together forming a bryozoan colony. Below is a smaller mat colony encrusting and some towering colonies zig-zagging up from a piece of Serrated Wrack. I wouldn't know how to begin to find names for these guys just going on these pictures. |