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S Side Little Skerrie, Skerries, Portrush.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19820805/02 Date: 1982-08-05 GPS: 55.22000,-6.64050. Depth: -15.0 to -16.0 m. [ 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 (86 species recorded)

PORIFERA Sertularella gayi Caryophyllia smithii Pelagella castanea Securiflustra securifrons RHODOPHYTA Pterothamnion plumula
Sycon ciliatum Sertularella polyzonias ANNELIDA Okenia nodosa Scrupocellaria sp. Scinaia interrupta Heterosiphonia plumosa
Cliona celata Sertularia argentea Chaetopterus variopedatus Crimora papillata Cellaria fistulosa Bonnemaisonia asparagoides Cryptopleura ramosa
Stelligera montagui Nemertesia antennina Sabella pavonina Limacia clavigera Cellaria sinuosa Calliblepharis ciliata Delesseria sanguinea
Raspailia hispida Nemertesia ramosa CRUSTACEA Cadlina laevis Cellepora pumicosa Rhodophyllis divaricata Haraldiophyllum bonnemaisonii
Raspailia ramosa Obelia dichotoma Pisidia longicornis Doris pseudoargus ECHINODERMATA Halarachnion ligulatum Hypoglossum hypoglossoides
Polymastia boletiformis Obelia geniculata Macropodia rostrata Antiopella cristata Leptasterias muelleri Metacallophyllis laciniata Radicilingua thysanorhizans
Polymastia penicillus Alcyonium digitatum MOLLUSCA Coryphella lineata Echinus esculentus Kallymenia reniformis Brongniartella byssoides
Suberites carnosus Epizoanthus couchii Gibbula (Colliculus) tumida Eubranchus tricolor TUNICATA Phyllophora crispa Pterosiphonia parasitica
Phorbas fictitius Urticina felina Calliostoma zizyphinum Musculus discors Clavelina lepadiformis Stenogramme interrupta CHROMOPHYTA
CNIDARIA Metridium senile Ocenebra erinacea BRYOZOA Morchellium argus Plocamium cartilagineum Dictyota dichotoma
Tubularia indivisa Cylista elegans Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata Alcyonidium diaphanum Corella parallelogramma Lomentaria orcadensis Laminaria hyperborea
Halecium halecinum Cereus pedunculatus Doto fragilis Membranipora membranacea PISCES Rhodymenia pseudopalmata Saccharina latissima
Hydrallmania falcata Corynactis viridis Doto pinnatifida Flustra foliacea Scyliorhinus stellaris Compsothamnion thuyoides

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