MBDP-NI: Site details Coast Guard Station, Killough Bay.

Priority species

Coast Guard Station, Killough Bay.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19820908/06 Date: 1982-09-08 GPS: 54.24200,-5.63350 [ View map ]

Site Description: Bedrock heavily grazed by Echinus with very little epifauna under kelp canopy and little growth on kelp stipes.

Species list (34 species recorded):

No biotope record.

CNIDARIA
Obelia geniculata P
Urticina felina P
MOLLUSCA
Steromphala cineraria P
Calliostoma zizyphinum P
BRYOZOA
Membranipora membranacea P
Electra pilosa P
ECHINODERMATA
Henricia oculata P
Asterias rubens P
Echinus esculentus P
Pawsonia saxicola P
TUNICATA
Diplosoma listerianum P
PISCES
Pollachius pollachius P
RHODOPHYTA
Palmaria palmata P
Lithophyllum sp. P
Metacallophyllis laciniata P
Plocamium cartilagineum P
Ceramium sp. P
Compsothamnion thuyoides P
Ptilota gunneri P
Heterosiphonia plumosa P
Apoglossum ruscifolium P
Cryptopleura ramosa P
Delesseria sanguinea P
Haraldiophyllum bonnemaisonii P
Membranoptera alata P
Nitophyllum punctatum P
Phycodrys rubens P
Odonthalia dentata P
Pterosiphonia parasitica P
CHROMOPHYTA
Ectocarpus sp. P
Desmarestia aculeata P
Laminaria hyperborea P
Saccharina latissima P
Halidrys siliquosa P