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Title: Colourful Marine Life, UK
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A rock wall is covered in colourful animals, including white elegant anemones (Sargartia elegans) and orange plumose anemones (Metridium dianthus), white soft corals (dead man's fingers: Alcyonium digitatum) and yellow sponges (unidentified), and a brown crab (edible crab: Cancer pagurus) and velvet swimming crab (Necora puber). St Abbs, Eyemouth, Berwickshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. British Isles. North Sea.
- Anthozoans: Anthozoa
- Arthropods: Arthropoda
- Berwickshire Marine Reserve
- British Isles
- Cancer Crabs: Cancridae
- Cnidarians: Cnidaria
- Crustaceans: Crustacea
- cuvie: kelp: Laminaria hyperborea
- dead man's fingers: Alcyonium digitatum
- Decapods: Decapoda
- edible crab: Cancer pagurus
- elegant anemone: Sargartia elegans
- Eyemouth
- Invertebrates
- Malacostraceans: Malacostracea
- Marine Life
- North Sea
- Octocorals: Octocorallia
- plumose anemone: Metridium dianthus
- Scotland
- St Abbs and Eyemouth Voluntary Marine Reserve
- UK
- United Kingdom
- velvet swimming crab: Necora puber
- www.amustard.com
- yellow sponges (unidentified)
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