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On the rocks

Cliff and rocky beach ecology



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

Organisms on cliffs or rocks along the west coast
Organisms on cliffs or rocks along the Baltic
Organisms on cliffs or rocks along the Gulf of Bothnia

Organisms amongst cliffs and rocks in Swedish waters


Cyanobacteria

Desmarestia aculeata

Dead men´s rope

Oarweed

Sugar kelp

Knotted wrack

Japweed

Toothed wrack

Spiral 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

Codium fragile

Monostroma grevillei

Sea lettuce

Bread crumb sponge

Club-headed hydroid

Common flower-head

Sea-fir

Anthomedusae

Leptomedusae

Moon jellyfish

Lions´s mane jellyfish

Cyanea lamarckii

Compass jellyfish

Rhizostome jellyfish

Dead men´s fingers

Dahlia anemone

Plumose anemone

Ragworm

Tubeworm
Spirorbis spirorbis

Pomatoceros triqueter

Chitons

Helcion pellucidum

Tortoise-shell limpet

Limpet

Grey topshell

Common periwinkle

Flat periwinkle

Rough periwinkle

Dogwhelk

Common whelk

Cuttlefish skeleton

Blue mussel

Rock borer

Ships worm

Northern rough barnacle

Bay barnacle

Rock barnacle

Gribble

Rock lice

Saduria entomon

Baltic isopod

Opossum shrimp

Sand hopper

Palaemon adspersus

Common prawn

Lobster

Common hermit crab

Common crab

Spider crab

Shore crab

Sea mat

Hairy sea-mat

Starfish

Common sunstar

Green sea-urchin

Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis

Sea squirt
Corella parallelogramma

Sea squirt
Clavelina lepadiformis

Sea squirt
Dendrodoa grossularia

Sea squirt
Ciona intestinalis

Mermaids purse from a skate

Goldsinny


Three-spined stickleback


Cod


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