MBDP-NI: Site details S of Sheep Island, Ballintoy.

Priority species

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.

Species list (13 species recorded):

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

No biotope record.

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