MBDP-NI: S Side Black Rock, Skerries, Portrush.

S Side Black Rock, Skerries, Portrush.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19820806/04 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 (54 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Patella pellucida	Bugulina flabellata	RHODOPHYTA	Phyllophora crispa	Ptilota gunneri	Nitophyllum punctatum
Sycon ciliatum	Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata	Scrupocellaria sp.	Palmaria palmata	Polyides rotundus	Heterosiphonia plumosa	Phycodrys rubens
Halichondria panicea	BRYOZOA	ECHINODERMATA	Corallina officinalis	Gracilaria gracilis	Acrosorium venulosum	Brongniartella byssoides
CNIDARIA	Crisia sp.	Echinus esculentus	Lithophyllum sp.	Plocamium cartilagineum	Cryptopleura ramosa	Odonthalia dentata
Obelia geniculata	Alcyonidium hirsutum	TUNICATA	Rhodophyllis divaricata	Lomentaria clavellosa	Delesseria sanguinea	Pterosiphonia parasitica
Caryophyllia smithii	Membranipora membranacea	Clavelina lepadiformis	Dilsea carnosa	Lomentaria orcadensis	Erythroglossum laciniatum	CHROMOPHYTA
MOLLUSCA	Electra pilosa	Dendrodoa grossularia	Chondrus crispus	Rhodymenia ardissonei	Haraldiophyllum bonnemaisonii	Dictyota dichotoma
Steromphala cineraria	Flustra foliacea	PISCES	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Rhodymenia pseudopalmata	Hypoglossum hypoglossoides	Laminaria hyperborea
Calliostoma zizyphinum	Bugula sp.	Labrus bergylta	Kallymenia reniformis	Pterothamnion plumula	Membranoptera alata	Saccharina latissima