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FISH
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INVERTEBRATES
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 American Brook Trout
(Salvenlius fontinalis) A beautifully marked member of the Salomon family.
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 Beadlet
Anomone (Actinia equina) Multi coloured, it is commonly found in rockpools found all a around our coast.
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 Pouting or Bib
(Trisopterus luscus) A very common member of the cod family - too small to be of commercial value.
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 Dahlia
Anemone (Urticina felina) Large and flattened, it lives in deeper water.
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 Poor Cod
(Trisopterus minutus) Found all round our coast - too small to be of commercial value.
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 Plumose
Anemone (Metridium senile) A deep water anemone.
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 Conger Eel
(Conger conger)
Grows to over 50kg, usually fished for over wrecks.
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 Snakelock
Anemone (Anemonia viridis) Lives in deeper water just beyond low water. Tentacles are very long.
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 Turbot
(Scopthalmus maximus)
An important food fish, it is one of many flatfish found around our coast.
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 Lobster
(Homarus gammarus) Blue/Purple when alive, red when cooked.
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 Topknot
(Zeugopterus punctatus)
A deeper water flatfish which has some commercial value.
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 Squat Lobster
(Galathea strigosa) A small, docile lobster which lives in roockpools.
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 Sand Smelt
(Atherina presbyter) An important food fish for predators such as birds and large fish.
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 Dublin Bay Prawn (Nephrops
norvegicus) Caught for food, its other names are Scampi and Langoustine.
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 Lesser Sandeel
(Ammodytes tobianus) An important food fish for predators such as birds and large fish.
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 Spiny
Spider Crab (Maja squinado) A deeper water crab which is consider a delicacy in France.
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 Painted Goby
(Pomatoschistus pictus) One of the smaller members of the Goby family.
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 Hermit Crab (Pagurus
bernhardus) A territorail species which will fight for hours over the top position on a rock.
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 Butterfly
Blenny
(Blennius ocellaris) An easily recognised Blenny because of its very large dorsal with a big eye-spot
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 Lesser
Octopus (Elodone cirrosa) The most intelligent cephalopod, on a par with a dog.
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 Butterfish or
Gunnel
(Pholis gunnelus) Common in rockpools during spring when it spawns. Very slippery to hold
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 Common Cuttlefish (Sepia
officinalis) They have a hard pad known as a pen which is source of calcium in cage birds.
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 15-Spine
Stickleback
(Spinachia spinachia) A wholly marine stickleback which grows to over 200mm.
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 Sea Squirt
(Ciona intestinalis) An ancestor of backboned animals.
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 Lesser Weever
Fish
(Echiichthys vipera) Poisonous- it buries itself on sandy beaches with only its eyes and venomous dorsal fish protruding above the sand.
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 Common
Sunstar (Crossaster papposus) an animal which should have 5-fold symmetry
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