Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

NW of Sheep Is, Ballintoy.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830517/04 Date: 1983-05-17 GPS: 55.25000,-6.35400. Depth: -7.0 to -8.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Steep uneven bedrock slope with crevices. Occasional gulley and pit. Stable boulders at bottom of pits. Kelp forest but large areas of bedrock.

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Species list (45 species recorded)

PORIFERA Haliclona viscosa Pomatoceros triqueter Okenia nodosa Polyclinum aurantium PISCES Heterosiphonia plumosa
Pachymatisma johnstonia Dysidea fragilis CRUSTACEA BRYOZOA Morchellium argus Myoxocephalus scorpius Delesseria sanguinea
Dercitus bucklandi Halisarca dujardinii Galathea strigosa Alcyonidium diaphanum Sidnyum turbinatum Taurulus bubalis Membranoptera alata
Hemimycale columella Haliclona sp. Necora puber ECHINODERMATA Aplidium punctum RHODOPHYTA Phycodrys rubens
Amphilectus fucorum CNIDARIA MOLLUSCA Henricia oculata Didemnum sp. Lithophyllum sp. Odonthalia dentata
Mycale rotalis Cylista elegans Steromphala cineraria Marthasterias glacialis Ascidia mentula Dilsea carnosa Polysiphonia stricta
Halichondria panicea Caryophyllia smithii Calliostoma zizyphinum Echinus esculentus Polycarpa pomaria Plocamium cartilagineum CHROMOPHYTA
Spongosorites calcicola ANNELIDA Hinia (Hinia) reticulata TUNICATA Dendrodoa grossularia Ptilota gunneri Laminaria hyperborea

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