Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

North of The Giants Causeway.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19820730/01 Date: 1982-07-30 GPS: 55.24717,-6.51533. Depth: -31.0 to -32.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Stable boulders & mobile cobbles. Much sand scour. Clean sand in 0.5m high dunes

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Species list (29 species recorded)

PORIFERA Ectopleura larynx ANNELIDA Macropodia rostrata Alcyonidium hirsutum Ophiopholis aculeata Pleuronectes platessa
Polymastia penicillus Hydrallmania falcata Pomatoceros triqueter MOLLUSCA Vesicularia spinosa TUNICATA RHODOPHYTA
Iophonopsis nigricans Sertularia cupressina CRUSTACEA Calliostoma zizyphinum Flustra foliacea Ascidiella scabra Pterosiphonia parasitica
Suberitidae sp. Rhizocaulus verticillatus Balanus crenatus Ocenebra erinacea ECHINODERMATA Dendrodoa grossularia
CNIDARIA Alcyonium digitatum Pagurus bernhardus Eubranchus tricolor Asterias rubens Botryllus schlosseri
Tubularia indivisa Metridium senile Hyas coarctatus BRYOZOA Ophiothrix fragilis PISCES

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