Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

NE of Burial Island, Ballyhalbert.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19820915/03 Date: 1982-09-15 GPS: 54.49083,-5.42117 [ View map ]

Site Description: Some rock very bare some heavily colonised by algae esp Dictyota. Pebbles and cobbles between with small red epilithic algae.

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Species list (51 species recorded)

CNIDARIA Amphitrite sp. Steromphala cineraria Crisia eburnea PISCES Compsothamnion thuyoides Pterosiphonia parasitica
Tubularia indivisa Lanice conchilega Calliostoma zizyphinum Bicellariella ciliata Pleuronectes platessa Halurus flosculosus Rhodomela confervoides
Sertularia argentea CRUSTACEA Testudinalia testudinalis ECHINODERMATA RHODOPHYTA Pterothamnion plumula CHROMOPHYTA
Obelia geniculata Pagurus bernhardus Lacuna (Epheria) vincta Asterias rubens Bonnemaisonia asparagoides Heterosiphonia plumosa Dictyota dichotoma
Synarachnactis lloydii Inachus phalangium Rissoa parva Echinus esculentus Lithophyllum sp. Cryptopleura ramosa Laminaria hyperborea
Anemonia viridis Cancer pagurus Elysia viridis TUNICATA Metacallophyllis laciniata Delesseria sanguinea Laminaria saccharina
Urticina felina Necora puber Hermaea bifida Dendrodoa grossularia Phyllophora pseudoceranoides Membranoptera alata Halidrys siliquosa
Actinothoe sphyrodeta MOLLUSCA Okenia nodosa Botryllus schlosseri Plocamium cartilagineum Phycodrys rubens
ANNELIDA Tricolia (Tricolia) pullus BRYOZOA Botrylloides leachi Antithamnionella spirographidis Odonthalia dentata

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