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.

Species list and abundance (39 species recorded):

Biotope 1	CRUSTACEA	Membranipora membranacea P	Sidnyum turbinatum P	Plocamium cartilagineum P	Brongniartella byssoides P	Saccharina latissima P
PORIFERA	Balanus crenatus P	Electra pilosa P	Ascidia conchilega P	Lomentaria orcadensis P	Odonthalia dentata P	Saccorhiza polyschides P
Polymastia penicillus P	Pisidia longicornis P	ECHINODERMATA	PISCES	Pterothamnion plumula P	Polysiphonia stricta P	CHLOROPHYTA
CNIDARIA	MOLLUSCA	Crossaster papposus P	Myoxocephalus scorpius P	Cryptopleura ramosa P	CHROMOPHYTA	Bryopsis plumosa P
Obelia geniculata P	Steromphala cineraria P	Asterias rubens P	Pholis gunnellus P	Delesseria sanguinea P	Cutleria P
Urticina felina P	Calliostoma zizyphinum P	Echinus esculentus P	RHODOPHYTA	Hypoglossum hypoglossoides P	Dictyota dichotoma P
ANNELIDA	Testudinalia testudinalis P	TUNICATA	Bonnemaisonia intricata P	Membranoptera alata P	Desmarestia aculeata P
Pomatoceros triqueter P	BRYOZOA	Clavelina lepadiformis P	Metacallophyllis laciniata P	Phycodrys rubens P	Laminaria hyperborea P

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