Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

North of The Giants Causeway.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19820730/04 Date: 1982-07-30 GPS: 55.24250,-6.51183 [ View map ]

Site Description: Fairly open kelp forest with good understorey of flora.

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Species list (62 species recorded)

PORIFERA Filograna implexa Amphorina farrani TUNICATA Botrylloides leachi Rhodymenia pseudopalmata Nitophyllum punctatum
Phorbas fictitius MOLLUSCA BRYOZOA Clavelina lepadiformis PISCES Compsothamnion thuyoides Odonthalia dentata
Haliclona viscosa Calliostoma zizyphinum Alcyonidium diaphanum Polyclinum aurantium Thorogobius ephippiatus Pterothamnion plumula Pterosiphonia parasitica
Dysidea fragilis Ocenebra erinacea Membranipora membranacea Morchellium argus RHODOPHYTA Heterosiphonia plumosa CHROMOPHYTA
CNIDARIA Hinia (Hima) incrassata Flustra foliacea Sidnyum turbinatum Lithophyllum sp. Acrosorium venulosum Dictyota dichotoma
Obelia geniculata Doto coronata Scrupocellaria scruposa Aplidium nordmanni Metacallophyllis laciniata Cryptopleura ramosa Laminaria hyperborea
Alcyonium digitatum Diaphorodoris luteocincta ECHINODERMATA Aplidium punctum Kallymenia reniformis Delesseria sanguinea
Actinothoe sphyrodeta Polycera quadrilineata Antedon bifida Didemnum sp. Schottera nicaeensis Erythroglossum laciniatum
Caryophyllia smithii Cadlina laevis Leptasterias muelleri Ascidia virginea Plocamium cartilagineum Haraldiophyllum bonnemaisonii
ANNELIDA Antiopella cristata Echinus esculentus Polycarpa scuba Lomentaria orcadensis Hypoglossum hypoglossoides
Sabella pavonina Tergipes tergipes Aslia lefevrei Botryllus schlosseri Rhodymenia ardissonei Membranoptera alata

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