Scoil N, Padraig Naofa, Ballyweelin, Ballinfull, Co. Sligo: Photographs of Class 5 & 6 (12 students, around 12 years old) Trip to Beach, 28th February 2006
Photographs taken in the Class room, observing on white trays filled with seawater and under the microscope, species collected from Raughley shore and looking at sampling gear.

The Group The Group

The Animals
The Childrens' activity

Marine animals in the trays

*Sea anemone
*Limpet Patella vulgata
*Common Whelk egg case Buccinum undatum
*Spiny Starfish Marthasterias glacialis
*Hermet crab Eupagurus bernhardus
*Squat Lobster
*Common Green Shore Crab Carcinus maenas
*Velvet Crab or Fiddler Crab Liocarcinus Puber (Portunus puber)
*Xantho crab Xanthosp.
*Broad-Clawed Porcelain Crab Porcellana platycheles
*Pipe Fish
*Five-bearded Rockling Onos mustelus
*Butterfish Pholis gunnellus (Centronotus gunnellus)
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