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Rocky Shores of Algoa Bay

This guide is being developed to help Nelson Mandela University students with the identification of rocky shore organisms around Port Elizabeth, in Algoa Bay and Seaview, in the Eastern Cape, on the South Coast of South Africa.
It is a 'work in progress' and will be continuously updated ...more ↓

Spiny Sea Star 1
Marthasterias glacialis
Granular Sea Star 2
Fromia schultzei
Cobbled Sea Star 2
Calliaster baccatus
Granular Cushionstar 3
Patiriella dyscrita
Dwarf Cushion Star 4
Parvulastra exigua
Red Sea Star 5
Callopatiria granifera
basket star 2
Astrocladus euryale
elegant feather star 5
Tropiometra carinata
Stomopneustes variolaris 6
Cape sea urchin 7
Parechinus angulosus
Indo-Pacific Rock-boring Urchin 8
Echinometra mathaei
Collector Urchin 9
Tripneustes gratilla
Pseudocnella sykion 10
Neostichopus grammatus 11

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