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British Invertebrates - marine

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Sand hopper (Talitrus saltator)
Sand-hoppers are so called because of their ability to leap when disturbed; they do so by tucking in the tail, and rapidly flicking...  More 1 Image1 Video
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Sea gooseberry (Pleurobrachia pileus)
Members of the phylum Ctenophora are known as sea-gooseberries or comb-jellies, and are startlingly beautiful marine invertebrates....  More 4 Images3 Videos
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Sea lemon (Archidoris pseudoargus)
The sea lemon, Archidoris pseudoargus (also known as Archidoris tuberculata in much of Europe) is a common sea slug around Britain....  More 6 Images1 Video
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Sea slater (Ligia oceanica)
The common sea slater is a sea-shore relative of woodlice that can grow up to 3 cm in length. It has a flattened, oval-shaped body...  More 8 Images0 Videos
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Sea-fan anemone (Amphianthus dohrnii)
This small anemone is pink, orange, red or buff-coloured with streaks of white, and has up to around 80 irregularly arranged small...  More 4 Images0 Videos
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Sea-spider (Nymphon gracile)
The sea-spiders, or pycogonids, are an unusual group of marine arthropods, which are completely unrelated to terrestrial spiders...  More 2 Images1 Video
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Star ascidian (Botryllus schlosseri)
The star ascidian is a colonial sea-squirt. The individual members of the colony (known as zooids) are embedded in a jelly-like...  More 5 Images2 Videos
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Sunset cup coral (Leptopsammia pruvoti)
The slow-growing and long-lived sunset cup coral has a porous skeleton about the size of a thimble. The polyps are similar...  More 6 Images1 Video