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S Side Little Skerrie, Skerries, Portrush.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19820805/01 Date: 1982-08-05 GPS: 55.22000,-6.64050 [ View map ]

Site Description: Very attractive site with boulder/cobbles heavily colonised with red algae bryozoa hydroids with coarse shell gravel between.

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Species list (51 species recorded)

PORIFERA Kirchenpaueria pinnata ANNELIDA Hyas coarctatus Eubranchus tricolor Antedon bifida PISCES
Sycon ciliatum Nemertesia antennina Chaetopterus variopedatus MOLLUSCA BRYOZOA Crossaster papposus Taurulus bubalis
Suberites ficus Nemertesia ramosa Lanice conchilega Steromphala cineraria Crisia sp. Ophiothrix fragilis RHODOPHYTA
Amphilectus fucorum Plumularia setacea CHELICERATA Doto pinnatifida Alcyonidium diaphanum TUNICATA Lithophyllum sp.
CNIDARIA Obelia dichotoma Endeis spinosa Ancula gibbosa Vesicularia spinosa Sidnyum turbinatum Plocamium cartilagineum
Halecium halecinum Urticina felina CRUSTACEA Limacia clavigera Eucratea loricata Perophora listeri Acrosorium venulosum
Halecium muricatum Cylista elegans Pagurus bernhardus Doris pseudoargus Flustra foliacea Ascidiella scabra Cryptopleura ramosa
Hydrallmania falcata Actinothoe sphyrodeta Pagurus cuanensis Antiopella cristata Crisularia plumosa Dendrodoa grossularia Haraldiophyllum bonnemaisonii
Sertularia argentea Caryophyllia smithii Galathea intermedia Coryphella gracilis ECHINODERMATA Botryllus schlosseri

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