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.

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Species list (40 species recorded)

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

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