Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

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)

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