Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

E of Black Rock, Skerries, Portrush.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19820806/02 Date: 1982-08-06 GPS: 55.22267,-6.61583 [ View map ]

Site Description: Boulder slope with pockets of sand. Layer of loose sand 1/2cm deep over rock surface. A lot of red algae but few animals.

Species list (12 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Nemertesia antennina	Lanice conchilega	BRYOZOA	Asterias rubens	Ophiura ophiura	Polycarpa pomaria
Suberites ficus	Plumularia setacea	CRUSTACEA	Cellepora pumicosa	Ophiothrix fragilis	Echinocardium cordatum
CNIDARIA	ANNELIDA	Pagurus bernhardus	ECHINODERMATA	Ophiura albida	TUNICATA

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