Coastwise Somerset Photo Gallery

We are a group of citizen scientists surveying the wildlife of the Somerset and Exmoor coastal waters and intertidal zone

These are some of the photographs taken on our surveys


Selected taxon groups: (See links above for more)

Seaweeds Arthropods Barnacles Molluscs Echinoderms Polychaete Worms

2022-03-15-MW-WO 2024-02-12-MW-WO 2024-10-19-GP-WO 2025-03-16-GT-WO 2025-03-30-GP-WO 2025-04-29-GP-WO 2025-04-30-MW-WO 2025-06-11-LB-WO 2025-06-15-PW-WO 2025-06-25-LBI-WO 2025-08-12-HB-WO 2025-09-22-GP-WO 2025-10-08-WH-WO 2025-10-11-HB-TS 2026-02-20-BD-WO 2026-03-03-GP-WO 2026-03-04-MW-WO 2026-03-18-GL-WO 2026-03-20-FG-WO 2026-04-01-WW-WO Actinia equina Anemonia viridis Arthopods Atlantic Dogwhelk Austrominius modestus Banded Pincer Weeds Barnacles BD Beadlet Anemone Bivalves Bladder Wrack Brean Down Bristle worms Brittle Stars Brown Algae Bryozoans BY-NC-ND Catenella caespitosa CC BY 4.0 CC BY-NC-ND CC-BY Ceramium spp. Chiton Chondrus Crispus Class Bivalvia Class Demospongiae Class Florideophyceae Class Gastropoda Class Ophiuroidea Class Phaeophyceae Class Polychaeta Class Ulvophyceae cnidarians Code coelenterates Common marine hermit crab Common rock barnacle Corallina spp. Crabs Creative Commons Creeping Chain Weed darktable Egg Electra pilosa encrusting coralline alga Family Paguridae Family Polynoidae Family Serpulidae Family Verrucariaceae FG Fiona B Fiona Boston Fishguard Flat Periwinkle Flat topshell Formal Walkover format Fucoids Fucus serratus Fucus vesiculosus Gastropods GL Glenthorne West Gore Point GP Green Algae Green tar lichen Greenaleigh Grey Mail-Shell GT Hairy sea-mat Harmothoe spp. HB Helwell Bay Hermit Crabs Honeycomb Worm hydroids Image Type Informal Survey Informal Walkover Infraclass Cirripedia Infraorder Anomura Infraorder Brachyura Ingrid H Irish Moss Isopods Jane MOF jellyfish Jo C keeled tubeworms LB LBI Lee Bay Lee Bay (Ilfracombe) Lepidochitona cinerea Limpets Lined topshell Littorina obtusata agg. Littorina saxatilis agg. Lobsters and Prawns Lower Shore Magallana gigas Marine Invertebrates Marine Lichens Marine Vertebrates ME Middle Shore Minehead East Minehead West Molluscs MW nef Netted Dogwhelk Northern acorn barnacle Nucella lapillus Observation Order Actiniaria Order Ceramiales Order Corallinales Order Decapoda Order Fucales Order Gigartinales Order Isopoda Pacific Oyster Pagurus bernhardus Patella spp. Phorcus lineatus Photographer Phyllum Arthropoda Phylum Annelida Phylum Bryozoa Phylum Chlorophyta Phylum Cnidaria Phylum Echinodermata Phylum Mollusca Phylum Porifera Phylum Rhodophyta Polychaete Worms Porcelain Crabs Porlock Weir Purple topshell PW Quadrat Survey Red Algae Rob S Rough Periwinkle Sabellaria alveolata Saw Wrack Scale Worms Scaleworms Sea Urchins Seaweeds Segmented Worms Semibalanus balanoides Serpulid tubeworms Site Site_Image Snakelocks Anemone Spirobranchus spp. Sponges Squat Lobsters Star Barnacle Starfish Steromphala umbilicalis Toothed topshell Toothed Wrack Topshell Survey Tritia reticulata true anemones Type Ulva spp. Upper Shore Verrucaria mucosa Wahlenbergiella mucosa Watchet West Westward Ho! WH WW Zone ~Natural History Life Stage
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