Sand beach ecology

Sand beach organisms along the Swedish west coast	Sand beach organisms along the Baltic	Sand beach organisms along the Gulf of Bothnia

Below are some of the sand beach organisms found in Swedish waters

Microalgae	Desmarestia aculeata	Dead men´s rope	Oarweed
Sugar wrack	Knotted wrack	Toothed wrack	Bladder wrack
Japweed	Sea oak	Furcellaria lumbricalis	Irish moss
Ceramium rubrum	Polysiphonia	Enteromorpha intestinalis	Monostroma grevillei
Sea lettuce	Bread crumb sponge	Boring sponges	Club-headed hydroid
Sea-fir	Anthomedusae	Leptomedusae	Moon jellyfish
Lion´s mane jellyfish	Cyanea lamarckii	Compass jellyfish	Rhizostome jellyfish
Ragworm	Lugworm	Tubeworm (Spirorbis spirorbis)	Pomatoceros triqueter
Chiton	Tortoiseshell limpet	Common limpet	Grey topshell
Common periwinkle	Flat periwinkle	Rough periwinkle	Mud snail
Common pelicans´s foot	Dogwhelk	Common whelk	Netted Dogwhelk
Cuttlebone	Blue mussel	Oyster	Northern lucine
Smooth and rayed Artemis	Common cockle	Lagoon cockle	Razor shell
Baltic macoma	Black clam	Pullet carpet-shell	Golden carpet-shell
Sand gaper	Rock-borer	Shipsworm	Northern rock barnacle
Bay barnacle	Rock barnacle	Gribble	Saduria entomon
Baltic isopod	Opossum shrimp	Monoporeia affinis	Sand hopper
Mudshrimp	Common prawn	Common prawn	Common shrimp
Common hermit crab	Shore crab	Sea-mat	Hairy sea-mat
Starfish	Mermaids purse from a skate	Three-spined stickleback	Sand eel
Sand goby	Plaice	Flounder