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Sand beach ecology



Sand beach organisms
that either live or are washed up there

Sand beach organisms along the Swedish west coast
Sand beach organisms along the Baltic
Sand beach organisms along the Gulf of Bothnia

Below are some of the sand beach organisms found in Swedish waters


Microalgae

Desmarestia aculeata

Dead men´s rope


Oarweed

Sugar wrack

Knotted wrack

Toothed wrack

Bladder wrack

Japweed

Sea oak

Furcellaria lumbricalis

Irish moss

Ceramium rubrum

Polysiphonia

Enteromorpha intestinalis

Monostroma grevillei

Sea lettuce

Bread crumb sponge

Boring sponges

Club-headed hydroid

Sea-fir

Anthomedusae

Leptomedusae

Moon jellyfish

Lion´s mane jellyfish

Cyanea lamarckii

Compass jellyfish

Rhizostome jellyfish


Ragworm

Lugworm

Tubeworm
(Spirorbis spirorbis)

Pomatoceros triqueter

Chiton

Tortoiseshell limpet

Common limpet

Grey topshell

Common periwinkle

Flat periwinkle


Rough periwinkle

Mud snail

Common pelicans´s foot

Dogwhelk

Common whelk

Netted Dogwhelk


Cuttlebone


Blue mussel

Oyster

Northern lucine

Smooth and rayed
Artemis

Common cockle

Lagoon cockle



Razor shell

Baltic macoma

Black clam

Pullet carpet-shell

Golden carpet-shell

Sand gaper

Rock-borer

Shipsworm


Northern rock barnacle


Bay barnacle

Rock barnacle

Gribble

Saduria entomon

Baltic isopod

Opossum shrimp

Monoporeia affinis

Sand hopper

Mudshrimp

Common prawn

Common prawn

Common shrimp

Common hermit crab

Shore crab


Sea-mat


Hairy sea-mat

Starfish

Mermaids purse from a skate

Three-spined
stickleback


Sand eel
 


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