Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

N of Otter Rock, Gid Point.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830518/03 Date: 1983-05-18 GPS: 55.24367,-6.42167 [ View map ]

Site Description: Dense L. hyperborea forest. Cryptopleura abundant on rocks and kelp stipes. Polysiphonia urceolata major kelp epiphyte. Not very diverse.

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Species list and abundance (38 species recorded):

Biotope 1 Caryophyllia smithii P BRYOZOA Sidnyum turbinatum P RHODOPHYTA Plocamium cartilagineum P Nitophyllum punctatum P
PORIFERA CRUSTACEA Crisia eburnea P Aplidium nordmanni P Bonnemaisonia asparagoides P Ptilota gunneri P Polysiphonia stricta P
Halichondria panicea P Polybius depurator P ECHINODERMATA Aplidium punctum P Bonnemaisonia intricata P Heterosiphonia plumosa P Pterosiphonia parasitica P
Haliclona sp. P MOLLUSCA Asterias rubens P Didemnum sp. P Dilsea carnosa P Cryptopleura ramosa P CHROMOPHYTA
CNIDARIA Calliostoma zizyphinum P Echinus esculentus P Dendrodoa grossularia P Metacallophyllis laciniata P Delesseria sanguinea P Dictyota dichotoma P
Obelia geniculata P Okenia nodosa P TUNICATA Botryllus schlosseri P Phyllophora crispa P Haraldiophyllum bonnemaisonii P Laminaria hyperborea P
Actinothoe sphyrodeta P Doris pseudoargus P Polyclinum aurantium P Botrylloides leachi P Schottera nicaeensis P Membranoptera alata P

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