APHOTOMARINE

An educational resource dedicated mainly to the photography
and diversity of marine life that can be found in coastal waters
and intertidal areas of Great Britain and Ireland by David Fenwick.

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Keeled tubeworm
Spirobranchus americanus
- on buoy from Gulf of Mexico 1

Keeled tubeworm
Spirobranchus americanus
- on buoy from Gulf of Mexico 2

Keeled tubeworm
Spirobranchus americanus
- on buoy from Gulf of Mexico 3

I'm very grateful to Alan Alder, the finder of the buoy here for allowing me to photograph it as it appears to have drifted all the way from the Gulf of Mexico. Thus the buoy had many non-native species either encrusting or growing on it. Not only did the buoy have the marine polychaete Spirobranchus americanus, but it also had Millepora sp., Fire coral, encrusting it, and the small green algae Anadyomene stellata, Common sea kale, growing on the Millepora.

The buoy was found washed-up at Watergate Bay, near Newquay, Cornwall. 17.01.16.

The species here was kindly verified by Harry ten Hove.

The main objective of this website is in furthering environmental awareness and education through the medium of photography. To increase awareness and access to the wildlife of the region and help

people find and identify it. Sometimes the difference between species is obvious but many species can only be determined by observing microscopic characteristics that are specific to any one species.