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Skullmartin Rock, Ballywalter.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19820917/02 Date: 1982-09-17 GPS: 54.53850,-5.44800 [ View map ]

Site Description: Bedrock and gullies small covered with sparse kelp forest and dense red algae. Boulder/silty areas between bedrock and bottom of gullies.

Species list (31 species recorded)

CNIDARIA	BRYOZOA	Asterias rubens	Botryllus schlosseri	Lithophyllum sp.	Ptilota gunneri	CHROMOPHYTA
Actinothoe sphyrodeta	Crisia denticulata	Leptasterias muelleri	Botrylloides leachi	Dilsea carnosa	Heterosiphonia plumosa	Laminaria hyperborea
MOLLUSCA	Scrupocellaria reptans	Ophiura albida	PISCES	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Cryptopleura ramosa	Saccharina latissima
Steromphala cineraria	ECHINODERMATA	Echinus esculentus	Gobiusculus flavescens	Plocamium cartilagineum	Delesseria sanguinea
Calliostoma zizyphinum	Antedon bifida	TUNICATA	RHODOPHYTA	Compsothamnion thuyoides	Phycodrys rubens
Elysia viridis	Henricia oculata	Aplidium punctum	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides	Halurus flosculosus	Odonthalia dentata

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