Berlengas Islands Nature Reserve Field Guide

The Berlengas Islands Nature Reserve includes a group of rocky islands near the western coast of Portugal and their surrounding waters. This guide aims to help the curious and the visitor alike enjoy this unique place, with its rarities and endemisms.

Anemonia sulcata

The snakelocks anemone (Anemonia viridis) is a sea anemone found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea.

Beadlet anemone

The beadlet anemone, Actinia equina, is a common sea anemone found on rocky shores around all coasts of the United Kingdom. Its range extends to the rest of Western Europe and the Mediterranean, and along the Atlantic coast of Africa as far south as South Africa.

Eunicella verrucosa

The broad sea fan or pink sea fan (Eunicella verrucosa) is a species of Gorgonian "soft coral" in the Gorgoniidae family.

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