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Craigbrain N of Ballywalter.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19820916/03 Date: 1982-09-16 GPS: 54.56950,-5.46917. Depth: -2.0 to -2.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Deep gullies with boulders on bottom. Kelp on horizontal surfaces rich algal and animal cover on vertical surfaces and under kelp.

Species list (57 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Galathea strigosa	Hermaea bifida	Didemnum sp.	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides	Plocamium cartilagineum	Odonthalia dentata
Microciona strepsitoxa	Eurynome spinosa	BRYOZOA	Didemnum maculosum	Gelidium spinosum	Compsothamnion thuyoides	CHROMOPHYTA
Dysidea fragilis	Cancer pagurus	Crisia denticulata	Diplosoma listerianum	Palmaria palmata	Halurus flosculosus	Halopteris filicina
Haliclona sp.	MOLLUSCA	Crisia eburnea	Dendrodoa grossularia	Lithophyllum sp.	Ptilota gunneri	Dictyota dichotoma
Halichondria sp.	Steromphala cineraria	Cellepora pumicosa	Botryllus schlosseri	Rhodophyllis divaricata	Heterosiphonia plumosa	Laminaria hyperborea
CNIDARIA	Calliostoma zizyphinum	ECHINODERMATA	Botrylloides leachi	Dilsea carnosa	Cryptopleura ramosa	Saccharina latissima
Lucernariopsis campanulata	Lacuna (Lacuna) parva	Leptasterias muelleri	PISCES	Chondrus crispus	Delesseria sanguinea	CHLOROPHYTA
Obelia geniculata	Lacuna (Epheria) vincta	Echinus esculentus	Chirolophis ascanii	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Haraldiophyllum bonnemaisonii	Cladophora sp.
CRUSTACEA	Ocenebra erinacea	TUNICATA	Gobiusculus flavescens	Meredithia microphylla	Membranoptera alata
Hippolyte varians	Elysia viridis	Aplidium punctum	RHODOPHYTA	Schottera nicaeensis	Phycodrys rubens

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