The rocky shore comprises
shelving bedrock with crevices and small rock pools.
Tar lichen occurs in the littoral fringe and
extends as patches into the upper shore (supralittoral) with periwinkles. The upper
and mid shore are charecterised by barnacles and limpets with the addition of
mussels in the mid shore; whilst spiral wrack occurs on the sheltered aspects
of the rock and red seaweeds occur across the lower shore.
Habitat classification:
Substrate
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LR (Littoral rock)
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Habitat
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LR.HLR (High energy littoral rock)
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FLR (Features of littoral rock)
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Biotope complex
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LR.HLR. MusB (Mussel and/or barnacle
communities)
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LR.FLR.Lic (Lichens on supralittoral
rock)
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LR.FLR.Rkp (Rockpools)
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Eph.FLR.Eph (Ephemeral green or red
seaweed communities
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Biotope
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LR.FLR.Lic.Ver (Verrucaria maura
on littoral fringe rock)
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LR.FLR.Rkp.Cor (Coralline crust
dominated shallow eulittoral rockpools)
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LR.FLR.Eph.EntPor (Porphyra purpurea
and Entomorpha spp. on sand scoured lower eulittoral rock)
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Below are images of
organisms you may encounter whilst rockpooling in these habitats:
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The rocky shore comprises sloping bed rock
with crevices and rockpools. Tar lichen (Verrucaria maura) and rough periwinkles (Littorina sp)
occur in the supralittoral, rockpools, barnacles, limpets and barnacles occur
throughout the upper, mid and lower shore. Whilst mussels occur with crevices
of the mid shore. Spiral wrack (Fucus spiralis) is confined to the
sheltered sides of the rock and red occur throughout the mid and lower shore.
Habitat classification: LR.FLR.Lic.Ver (Verrucaria maura
on littoral fringe rock), LR.FLR.Rkp.Cor (Coralline crust dominated shallow
eulittoral rockpools) and LR.HLR. MusB (Mussel and/or barnacle communities.
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Small periwinkles (Melarhaphe neritoides) and both species of rough periwinkle (Littorina sp) occur with tar lichen (Verrucaria maura) within the littoral
fringe. Habitat classification: LR.FLR.Lic.Ver (Verrucaria maura
on littoral fringe rock).
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| Barnacles and limpets occur across the shore (Eulittoral) with small coralline rockpools scattered throughout. Habitat classification: LR.FLR.Rkp.Cor (Coralline crust dominated shallow eulittoral rockpools) and LR.HLR. MusB (Mussel and/or barnacle communities. |
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A small coralline rockpool of the mid shore
with a small encrustation of corallinacea crusts, Limpets (Patella sp) and Beadlet anemones (Actinia equina).
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| Coral weed (Corallina officinalis), Corallinaceae crust, barnacles and epiphytic seaweed within a coralline rockpool |
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Limpets (Patella
vulgata) and sparse barnacles.
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Limpets (Patella
vulgata), barnacles and a red seaweed.
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Common blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) occur within crevices amongst barnacles and limpets
(Patella sp) of the mid shore.
Habitat classification: LR.HLR. MusB (Mussel and/or barnacle
communities.
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M.
edulis occur within crevices amongst barnacles, limpets (Patella sp) and the red seaweed, Porphya sp.
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Barnacles, M. edulis and periwinkles.
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M.
edulis, barnacles and limpets (Patella sp).
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1 Further down the shore Barnacles, M. edulis forms clumps overgrown with
red seaweed and dog whelks (Nucella
lapillus) and periwinkles.
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Dulse on the lower shore
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| Dulse on the lower shore |
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| Dulse on the lower shore |
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A red seaweed and springtails on the mid
shore
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Mastocarpus
stellatus, Porphyra sp and Ulva
sp on the lower shore
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Fucus
spiralis and Ulva sp
(previously Entomorpha sp) in a
sheltered area of the shore
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F.
spiralis in a more sheltered area of the shore
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Cladophora
rupestris and F. spiralis
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Ephemeral greens cover the lower shore
boulders. Habitat classification: LR.FLR.Eph.EntPor (Porphyra purpurea and
Entomorpha spp. on sand scoured lower eulittoral rock).
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