MBDP-NI: Wee Pill Ringfad Point, Ardglass.

Wee Pill Ringfad Point, Ardglass.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19820908/02 Date: 1982-09-08 GPS: 54.25000,-5.60417 [ View map ]

Site Description: Bedrock ridges and bottom of cliff adjoining cobble area. Covered with Ophiothrix and frequent red algae.

Species list (63 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Alcyonium digitatum	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Antedon bifida	TUNICATA	Callionymus lyra	Heterosiphonia plumosa
Sycon ciliatum	ANNELIDA	Buccinum undatum	Solaster endeca	Clavelina lepadiformis	Pomatoschistus minutus	Delesseria sanguinea
Cliona celata	Amphitrite sp.	Okenia nodosa	Crossaster papposus	Diplosoma listerianum	RHODOPHYTA	Phycodrys rubens
Suberites carnosus	Sabella pavonina	Acanthodoris pilosa	Henricia oculata	Ciona intestinalis	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides	Odonthalia dentata
Mycale rotalis	Serpula vermicularis	Polycera faeroensis	Asterias rubens	Corella parallelogramma	Lithophyllum sp.	Pterosiphonia parasitica
Haliclona oculata	CRUSTACEA	Polycera quadrilineata	Leptasterias muelleri	Ascidiella scabra	Rhodophyllis divaricata	CHROMOPHYTA
CNIDARIA	Inachus phalangium	Pecten maximus	Ophiothrix fragilis	Ascidia mentula	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Dictyota dichotoma
Halecium halecinum	Macropodia rostrata	Eledone cirrhosa	Ophiura albida	Ascidia virginea	Schottera nicaeensis	Laminaria hyperborea
Kirchenpaueria pinnata	Cancer pagurus	BRYOZOA	Echinus esculentus	Botryllus schlosseri	Plocamium cartilagineum
Nemertesia antennina	MOLLUSCA	Electra pilosa	Thyone roscovita	PISCES	Compsothamnion thuyoides
Obelia geniculata	Steromphala cineraria	ECHINODERMATA	Pawsonia saxicola	Trisopterus minutus	Halurus flosculosus