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Studies along cliffs

Cliff and rocky beach ecology



Organisms amongst cliffs and rocks
that either live or are washed-up there

The Baltic
Organisms on cliffs or rocks along the Baltic

Cyanobacteria

Desmarestia aculeata

Dead men´s rope

Oarweed

Sugar kelp

Toothed wrack

Bladder wrack

Sea oak

Furcellaria lumbricalis

Irish moss

Ceramium rubrum

Sea beech

Polysiphonia

Hildenbrandia rubra

Encrusting red algae

Salt lichen

Ramalina siliquosa

Orange lichen

Wall lichen

Cladophora rupestris

Enteromorpha intestinalis

Monostroma grevillei

Sea lettuce

Bread crumb sponge

Club-headed hydroid

Sea fir

Anthomedusae

Leptomedusae

Moon jellyfish

Lion´s mane jellyfish

Cyanea lamarckii

Rhizostome jellyfish

Dahlia anemone

Plumose anemone

Ragworm

Tubeworm
Spirorbis spirorbis

Pomatoceros triqueter

Chitons

Tortoise-shell limpet

Common periwinkle

Flat periwinkle

Rough periwinkle

Common whelk

Cuttlefish skeleton

Blue mussel

Rock borer

Ship worm

Northern rough barnacle

Bay barnacle

Rock barnacle

Gribble

Rock lice

Saduria entomon

Baltic isopod

Opossum shrimp

Sand hopper

Palaemon adspersus

Common prawn

Spider crab

Shore crab

Sea mat

Hairy sea-mat

Sea squirt
Corella parallelogramma

Sea squirt
Dendrodoa grossularia

Mermaids purse from a skate

Goldsinny

Three-spined stickleback


Cod


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