Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

SE of Killard Point.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830504/02 Date: 1983-05-04 GPS: 54.30167,-5.52117 [ View map ]

Site Description: Large scored bedrock ridges E/W with gullies. Two rock mills. Very occasional boulder. Limestone much bored by Hiatella arctica.

Species list and abundance (31 species recorded):

Biotope 1	Abietinaria abietina P	Pomatoceros triqueter P	MOLLUSCA	Crossaster papposus P	Echinus esculentus P	PISCES
PORIFERA	Kirchenpaueria pinnata P	CRUSTACEA	Calliostoma zizyphinum P	Asterias rubens P	Pawsonia saxicola P	Lophius piscatorius P
Polymastia penicillus P	Nemertesia antennina P	Balanus crenatus P	Lacuna (Lacuna) parva P	Ophiothrix fragilis P	TUNICATA	Pollachius pollachius P
Cliona celata P	Alcyonium digitatum P	Pagurus bernhardus P	Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata P	Ophiocomina nigra P	Clavelina lepadiformis P	RHODOPHYTA
Halichondria panicea P	Caryophyllia smithii P	Cancer pagurus P	Hiatella arctica P	Ophiopholis aculeata P	Aplidium punctum P	Lithophyllum sp. P
CNIDARIA	ANNELIDA	Necora puber P	ECHINODERMATA	Ophiura albida P	Ascidia mentula P

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