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.

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Species list (31 species recorded)

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

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