APHOTOMARINE

An Educational Photographic Resource and Stock Image Library
of the Sea, Maritime Environment, Marine and Rockpool Life in the
Coastal Waters of South-West England by David Fenwick.

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Egg Wrack
Ascophyllum nodosum
- on rocky middleshore 1

Egg Wrack
Ascophyllum nodosum
- on rocky middleshore 2

Egg Wrack
Ascophyllum nodosum
- fronds 1

Egg Wrack
Ascophyllum nodosum
- with Polysiphonia lanosa 1

Egg Wrack
Ascophyllum nodosum
- frond close-up 1

A common seaweed, usually found across the middleshore on sheltered rocky coasts and in estuaries across the region. May also be found washed up on the strandline of beaches having drifted across the Atlantic on the Gulf Stream, these pieces may have stalked barnacles growing on them, barnacles such as Dosima fascicularis, the Buoy Barnacle; and Lepas pectinata. Here in the UK a hydroid, Dynamena pumila; and a red seaweed, Vertebrata lanosa synonym Polysiphonia lanosa may be see growing epithitically on this seaweed.

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Species photographed at many locations across the region; these include the Lynher Estuary, off Point Field, Churchtown Farm Cornwall Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve at Saltash; and at Marazion, near Penzance, Cornwall.

Scientific and European Names:
Ascophyllum nodosum, Knotted Wrack, Egg Wrack, Asco, Sea Whistle, Knotentang, Knotswier, Goemon noir, Alga nudosa.

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