New arrival in Devon:

The anemone prawn Periclimenes sagittifer has been recorded in Devon for the first time. This is the first record west of Portland Bill.
The anemone prawn is a recent arrival from the south, being first recorded in the UK in 2007, at Swanage Pier in Dorset. This year we have records, confirmed by photographs, of the anemone prawns at Babbacombe in Devon.
The anemone prawn is a tiny prawn with distinctive bright blue colours and lives exclusively amongst the tentacles of the snakelocks anemone, which it helps to keep clean in exchange for protection from would be predators.
Divers have been recording the gradual spread along the south coast. Lets look out for the little prawn elsewhere in Devon.

Left photo: found and photographed by Matt Jarman and Tamsyn Mann.
Right photo: found and photographed by Terry Griffiths and Dan Bolt.

Please send in your forms for this year.
I am about to update our records for this year. If you have any Seasearch forms lurking at home please send them on to me, Kat.
I have recieved over 90 forms already this year, so well done and thank you to all that have sent in forms.

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