David Ainsley

Celtic feather star - Leptometra celtica
Red cushion star - Porania pulvillus
Sea slug - Flabellina pedata
Diver
Diver
Hydroid – Tubularia sp.
Yellow boring sponge – Cliona celata
Sea fan anemone Amphianthus dohrnii

Argyll & Bute Council

Easdale Island
Fishing boat – Firth of Lorn
Fladda Lighthouse
Grey Seals
Loch Creran Mussels
Fishing boat – Loch Creran
Yachting – Loch Creran
Yachting – Loch Creran

Francis Daunt

European shag - Phalacrocorax aristotelis

Colin Davidson

Puffin on Lunga

Hebridean Whale & Dolphin Trust

Bottlenose dolphin - Tursiops truncatus
Minke Whale - Balaenoptera acutorostrata

Marine Life Information Network for Britain and Ireland (MarLIN)

Keith Hiscock
Acorn barnacle - Balanus crenatus

Paul Naylor

The following images are reproduced
from the book ‘Great British Marine Animals’
by Paul Naylor. Further information on the
book and Paul can be found at www.marinephoto.co.uk

 

 

 

Jewel anemone – Corynactis viridis
Jewel anemone – Corynactis viridis
King scallop – Pecten maximus
Northern starfish – Leptasterias muelleri
Oaten pipe hydroid – Tubularia indivisa
Serpula vermicularis reef
Spiny squat lobster – Galathea strigosa
Sea urchin
Starfish
Starfish
Northern Sea Fan - Swiftia pallida
Celtic feather star - Leptometra celtica
Gooseberry sea squirt – Dendrodoa grossularia
Lace sponge – Clathrina coriacea
Serpula vermicularis

Graham Saunders

Northern Sea Fan - Swiftia pallida
Horned wrack - Fucus ceranoides
Bladder wrack - Fucus vesiculosus
Knotted wrack - Ascophyllum nodosum
Blue-rayed limpets - Patina pellucida
Banded Chink Shells - Lacuna vincta
Sea slug - Polycera quadrilineata

Scottish Association for Marine Science

Dr Tom Wilding
wrasse - Labridae
Gobies
Cod - Gadus morhua

Dr Elvira Poloczanska
Butterfish - Pholis gunnellus

Scottish Natural Heritage

Mussel Lines
Guillimot colony
Razorbills

John Baxter
Common Seal - Phoca vitulina

Alistair Davison
Southern cup coral - Caryophyllia inornata
Fast flowing tidal streams
Cuan Sound
Bagh Glean nam Muc

Jane Dodd
Puffins on the Treshnish Isles

Rohan Holt
Sponge - Mycale lingua

Sue Scott
Serpulid worm – Serpula vermicularis
Horse mussels - Modiolus modiolus

Scottish Sea Farms

Creran sunrise
Creran sunrise
Wellboat
Wellboat

Sea Life Surveys

Harbour porpoise - Phocoena phocoena

The Hebridean Trust

Puffin

Debbie White

Egg wrack and saw toothed wrack