MBDP-NI: Site details N of The Storks, Skerries, Portrush.

N of The Storks, Skerries, Portrush.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840703/01 Date: 1984-07-03 GPS: 55.22250,-6.59067 [ View map ]

Site Description: Cobble bottom with some large boulders. Cobbles with bryozoans & hydroids. Boulders with Flustra foliacea & Echinus.

Species list and abundance (53 species recorded):

PORIFERA	Nemertesia antennina P	Lanice conchilega P	Ancula gibbosa P	Eucratea loricata P	Ophiura albida P	Corella parallelogramma P
Polymastia penicillus P	Nemertesia ramosa P	CRUSTACEA	Thecacera pennigera P	Flustra foliacea P	Echinus esculentus P	Ascidiella scabra P
Suberites carnosus P	Rhizocaulus verticillatus P	Balanus crenatus P	Antiopella cristata P	Securiflustra securifrons P	Neopentadactyla mixta P	Polycarpa pomaria P
CNIDARIA	Alcyonium digitatum P	Pagurus cuanensis P	Doto sp. P	Bugulina flabellata P	Thyone fusus P	Botryllus schlosseri P
Halecium halecinum P	Urticina felina P	Cancer pagurus P	Amphorina pallida P	Crisularia plumosa P	Thyone roscovita P	Botrylloides leachi P
Diphasia rosacea P	Cylista elegans P	MOLLUSCA	Venus casina P	Parasmittina trispinosa P	TUNICATA	PISCES
Hydrallmania falcata P	Caryophyllia smithii P	Leptochiton asellus P	BRYOZOA	ECHINODERMATA	Distaplia rosea P	Scyliorhinus canicula P
Sertularella polyzonias P	ANNELIDA	Calliostoma zizyphinum P	Alcyonidium diaphanum P	Asterias rubens P	Morchellium argus P	Callionymus lyra P
Sertularia cupressina P	Chaetopterus variopedatus P	Buccinum undatum P	Bowerbankia sp. P	Marthasterias glacialis P	Aplidium nordmanni P