Aquascope

Facts

Sand beach ecology



Organisms on sand beaches
that either live or are washed up there

Sand beach organisms around the Gulf of Bothnia

Microalgae

Bladder wrack

Furcellaria fastigiata

Polysiphonia

Enteromorpha intestinalis

Moon jellyfish


Ragworm

Mud snail


Blue mussel

Lagoon cockle

Baltic macoma

Sand gaper


Bay barnacle

Saduria entomon

Baltic isopod

Opossum shrimp

Monoporeia affinis

Mudshrimp

Common shrimp

Three-spined stickleback


Sand eel


Sand goby


Flounder


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