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W Larry Bane Head, Ballintoy.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830517/02 Date: 1983-05-17 GPS: 55.24633,-6.35417. Depth: -8.0 to -9.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Channel between Is. and headland. Huge limestone boulders with some flat scoured bedrock showing and smooth cobble. Sand on all flat surfaces.

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Species list (66 species recorded)

PORIFERA	CNIDARIA	BRYOZOA	Aplidium nordmanni	Kallymenia reniformis	Pterothamnion plumula	Pterosiphonia parasitica
Clathrina coriacea	Hydrallmania falcata	Crisia eburnea	Dendrodoa grossularia	Meredithia microphylla	Ptilota gunneri	CHROMOPHYTA
Grantia compressa	Alcyonium digitatum	Membranipora membranacea	Botryllus schlosseri	Phyllophora crispa	Cryptopleura ramosa	Desmarestia aculeata
Stelletta grubii	Urticina felina	Bicellariella ciliata	Botrylloides leachi	Phyllophora pseudoceranoides	Delesseria sanguinea	Laminaria hyperborea
Stryphnus ponderosus	Cylista elegans	ECHINODERMATA	RHODOPHYTA	Schottera nicaeensis	Hypoglossum hypoglossoides	Laminaria saccharina
Pachymatisma johnstonia	Cereus pedunculatus	Henricia oculata	Porphyra sp.	Polyides rotundus	Nitophyllum punctatum	Saccorhiza polyschides
Dercitus bucklandi	Actinothoe sphyrodeta	TUNICATA	Schmitziella endophloea	Sphaerococcus coronopifolius	Phycodrys rubens	CHLOROPHYTA
Tethya citrina	MOLLUSCA	Clavelina lepadiformis	Corallina officinalis	Plocamium cartilagineum	Brongniartella byssoides	Cladophora sp.
Hemimycale columella	Steromphala cineraria	Polyclinum aurantium	Dilsea carnosa	Lomentaria clavellosa	Odonthalia dentata	Cladophora pellucida
Haliclona viscosa	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Synoicum pulmonaria	Furcellaria lumbricalis	Lomentaria orcadensis	Polysiphonia sp.
Dysidea fragilis	Talochlamys distorta	Morchellium argus	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Ceramium sp.	Polysiphonia nigra

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