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NW Little Skerrie, Skerries, Portrush.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19820803/01 Date: 1982-08-03 GPS: 55.22317,-6.64600 [ View map ]

Site Description: Bottom richly covered with erect hydroids. Bryozoa on cobbles. Boulders with Echinus and Alcyonium also Flustra foliacea.

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Species list (49 species recorded)

PORIFERA Axinella infundibuliformis Actinothoe sphyrodeta Coryphella browni Bugula sp. Aplidium nordmanni Scomber scombrus
Pachymatisma johnstonia Dysidea fragilis CRUSTACEA Coryphella verrucosa Scrupocellaria sp. PISCES RHODOPHYTA
Cliona celata CNIDARIA Pagurus cuanensis Eubranchus sp. Cellaria sinuosa Molva molva Acrosorium venulosum
Raspailia ramosa Sertularella gayi MOLLUSCA BRYOZOA ECHINODERMATA Pollachius pollachius Cryptopleura ramosa
Polymastia boletiformis Sertularia argentea Calliostoma zizyphinum Crisia sp. Crossaster papposus Pollachius virens
Polymastia penicillus Nemertesia antennina Ocenebra erinacea Alcyonidium diaphanum Henricia oculata Trisopterus luscus
Suberites carnosus Nemertesia ramosa Doto fragilis Eucratea loricata TUNICATA Ctenolabrus rupestris
Phorbas fictitius Alcyonium digitatum Pelagella castanea Flustra foliacea Clavelina lepadiformis Labrus bergylta
Amphilectus fucorum Cylista elegans Antiopella cristata Securiflustra securifrons Morchellium argus Callionymus lyra

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