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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Noble aeolis
Fiona pinnata
- top view close-up 1

Noble aeolis
Fiona pinnata
- side view close-up 1

Noble aeolis
Fiona pinnata
- underside close-up 1

Noble aeolis
Fiona pinnata
- corrugated flaps on cerata 1

Noble aeolis
Fiona pinnata
- close-up / with scale 1

Noble aeolis
Fiona pinnata
- stalked egg mass 1

Images of species taken at Sennen Cove, Penwith, Cornwall. 15.12.11. SW 35630 26665.

The species, with its eggs, was found amongst a colony of Lepas anatifera (Stalked or Goose barnacles) on a short piece of sleeper type timber. The timber also contained the shipworms Bankia gouldi, Teredora malleolus and Nototeredo norvagica; and also two, one male and one female Planes minutus, known as Columbus crabs. The timber had obviously drifted across the Atlantic from the Western Atlantic or Caribbean Sea.

Fiona pinnata feeds on both Lepas species, which gives the slug its brown colour here in the images; but also on Velella velella, By the wind sailor, which turns the animal a bluish colour.

The common name Noble aeolis is taken from a Victorian text, Shell Life by Edward Step.

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.

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