Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

NE of Bengore Head.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830519/04 Date: 1983-05-19 GPS: 55.24950,-6.46500. Depth: -7.0 to -8.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Smooth topped bedrock with reds/browns or Furcellaria in thick coarse sand or with Polyclinum/Dendrodoa-all in tall Laminaria forest.

Species list and abundance (40 species recorded):

Biotope 1	CRUSTACEA	Crisia eburnea P	Synoicum pulmonaria P	Chondrus crispus P	Membranoptera alata P	Desmarestia viridis P
PORIFERA	Necora puber P	Alcyonidium diaphanum P	Sidnyum turbinatum P	Metacallophyllis laciniata P	Nitophyllum punctatum P	Laminaria hyperborea P
Grantia compressa P	Xantho pilipes P	ECHINODERMATA	Dendrodoa grossularia P	Kallymenia reniformis P	Phycodrys rubens P
CNIDARIA	MOLLUSCA	Asterias rubens P	RHODOPHYTA	Plocamium cartilagineum P	Odonthalia dentata P
Haliclystus auricula P	Steromphala cineraria P	Marthasterias glacialis P	Palmaria palmata P	Rhodymenia pseudopalmata P	Polysiphonia stricta P
Urticina felina P	Calliostoma zizyphinum P	Echinus esculentus P	Lithophyllum sp. P	Ptilota gunneri P	Rhodomela confervoides P
Cylista elegans P	Tectura virginea P	TUNICATA	Dilsea carnosa P	Cryptopleura ramosa P	CHROMOPHYTA
Caryophyllia smithii P	BRYOZOA	Polyclinum aurantium P	Furcellaria lumbricalis P	Delesseria sanguinea P	Dictyota dichotoma P

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