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Wee Pill Ringfad Point, Ardglass.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19820908/03 Date: 1982-09-08 GPS: 54.25083,-5.60500 [ View map ]

Site Description: Cliff extending to 14m; base of cliff very clean cobbles; rafts of drift algae and outcrops of jagged bedrock. Heavily grazed.

Species list (48 species recorded)

PORIFERA	CRUSTACEA	Okenia nodosa	Cellepora pumicosa	Diplosoma listerianum	Lithophyllum sp.	Odonthalia dentata
Myxilla incrustans	Carcinus maenas	Onchidoris bilamellata	ECHINODERMATA	Ascidiella aspersa	Rhodophyllis divaricata	CHROMOPHYTA
CNIDARIA	MOLLUSCA	Cadlina laevis	Antedon bifida	Botryllus schlosseri	Phyllophora crispa	Dictyota dichotoma
Abietinaria abietina	Steromphala cineraria	Doris pseudoargus	Henricia oculata	Botrylloides leachi	Plocamium cartilagineum	Laminaria hyperborea
Obelia dichotoma	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Eledone cirrhosa	Asterias rubens	PISCES	Ptilota gunneri
Alcyonium digitatum	Testudinalia testudinalis	BRYOZOA	Leptasterias muelleri	Pholis gunnellus	Heterosiphonia plumosa
Cylista elegans	Patella pellucida	Crisia sp.	Echinus esculentus	Gobiusculus flavescens	Cryptopleura ramosa
Corynactis viridis	Lacuna (Epheria) vincta	Membranipora membranacea	TUNICATA	RHODOPHYTA	Delesseria sanguinea
Caryophyllia smithii	Dendronotus frondosus	Electra pilosa	Morchellium argus	Corallina officinalis	Membranoptera alata

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