Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

E of Sheep Is, Ballintoy.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830519/05 Date: 1983-05-19 GPS: 55.24783,-6.34900 [ View map ]

Site Description: Evidence of rafting; cobbles with Laminaria attached lying on sides. Thin layer of sand over and between cobbles and pebbles.

Species list (41 species recorded)

PORIFERA	ANNELIDA	Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata	Securiflustra securifrons	Polycarpa scuba	Metacallophyllis laciniata	CHROMOPHYTA
Clathrina coriacea	Pomatoceros triqueter	Acanthodoris pilosa	ECHINODERMATA	Dendrodoa grossularia	Rhodymenia pseudopalmata	Laminaria hyperborea
Polymastia boletiformis	CRUSTACEA	BRYOZOA	Crossaster papposus	Molgula complanata	Ptilota gunneri	Laminaria saccharina
CNIDARIA	Pagurus bernhardus	Crisia eburnea	Henricia oculata	RHODOPHYTA	Heterosiphonia plumosa
Tubularia indivisa	Cancer pagurus	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Asterias rubens	Ahnfeltia plicata	Cryptopleura ramosa
Urticina felina	MOLLUSCA	Membranipora membranacea	Marthasterias glacialis	Lithophyllum sp.	Delesseria sanguinea
Cylista elegans	Steromphala cineraria	Electra pilosa	Echinus esculentus	Dilsea carnosa	Phycodrys rubens
Caryophyllia smithii	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Flustra foliacea	TUNICATA	Furcellaria lumbricalis	Odonthalia dentata