Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

SE of Killard Point.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830504/03 Date: 1983-05-04 GPS: 54.30467,-5.52500 [ View map ]

Site Description: Rock slope going to cobble/boulder plain. Lots of wreckage. Fairly thick kelp on bedrock sparse on boulder and metal. Lot of small algae growth.

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Species list (39 species recorded)

PORIFERA Balanus crenatus Electra pilosa Ascidia conchilega Lomentaria orcadensis Odonthalia dentata Saccorhiza polyschides
Polymastia penicillus Pisidia longicornis ECHINODERMATA PISCES Pterothamnion plumula Polysiphonia stricta CHLOROPHYTA
CNIDARIA MOLLUSCA Crossaster papposus Myoxocephalus scorpius Cryptopleura ramosa CHROMOPHYTA Bryopsis plumosa
Obelia geniculata Steromphala cineraria Asterias rubens Pholis gunnellus Delesseria sanguinea Cutleria
Urticina felina Calliostoma zizyphinum Echinus esculentus RHODOPHYTA Hypoglossum hypoglossoides Dictyota dichotoma
ANNELIDA Testudinalia testudinalis TUNICATA Bonnemaisonia intricata Membranoptera alata Desmarestia aculeata
Pomatoceros triqueter BRYOZOA Clavelina lepadiformis Metacallophyllis laciniata Phycodrys rubens Laminaria hyperborea
CRUSTACEA Membranipora membranacea Sidnyum turbinatum Plocamium cartilagineum Brongniartella byssoides Laminaria saccharina

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