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Magilligan Strand.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19820729/01 Date: 1982-07-29 GPS: 55.26167,-6.84083 [ View map ]

Site Description: Horizontal plain of coarse sand channels between areas of low bedrock outcropping. Occasional loose boulder or cobble. Mainly hydroid and bryozoan turf. Much shell debris on sand. Rock fairly pitted.

Species list (36 species recorded)

ANNELIDA	Verruca stroemia	Calliostoma zizyphinum	BRYOZOA	Amphipholis squamata	Ascidiella scabra	PISCES
Lepidonotus squamatus	Anapagurus hyndmanni	Neptunea antiqua	Crisularia plumosa	Ophiura sp.	Styela coriacea	Zeugopterus punctatus
Sabellaria spinulosa	Pagurus bernhardus	Doto fragilis	Cellepora pumicosa	Echinus esculentus	Polycarpa fibrosa
Sabella pavonina	Pagurus cuanensis	Eubranchus tricolor	ECHINODERMATA	TUNICATA	Polycarpa pomaria
CHELICERATA	Pagurus pubescens	Mytilus edulis	Crossaster papposus	Polyclinum aurantium	Polycarpa scuba
Nymphon brevitarse	Hyas araneus	Musculus subpictus	Asterias rubens	Aplidium punctum	Dendrodoa grossularia
CRUSTACEA	MOLLUSCA	Hiatella arctica	Ophiothrix fragilis	Ciona intestinalis	Botryllus schlosseri

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