Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

S of Sheep Island, Ballintoy.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830517/01 Date: 1983-05-17 GPS: 55.24417,-6.35500 [ View map ]

Site Description: Channel between Is and land. Sand plain with no macro fauna about at all.

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Species list (13 species recorded)

ANNELIDA Cancer pagurus Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata Ahnfeltia plicata Furcellaria lumbricalis CHROMOPHYTA Cladophora sp.
Arenicola marina MOLLUSCA Hiatella arctica Corallina officinalis Polyides rotundus Laminaria hyperborea
CRUSTACEA Elysia viridis RHODOPHYTA Lithophyllum sp. Ptilota gunneri CHLOROPHYTA

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