Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

E of Sheep Is, Ballintoy.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830519/06 Date: 1983-05-19 GPS: 55.24783,-6.34900. Depth: -8.0 to -9.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Large boulders with patches of cobble between. Dense kelp forest.

Species list (40 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Cylista elegans	BRYOZOA	TUNICATA	Rhodophyllis werneri	Halurus flosculosus	Brongniartella byssoides
Clathrina coriacea	MOLLUSCA	Crisia eburnea	Dendrodoa grossularia	Dilsea carnosa	Ptilota gunneri	Odonthalia dentata
Grantia compressa	Steromphala cineraria	Membranipora membranacea	Botryllus schlosseri	Chondrus crispus	Heterosiphonia plumosa	Polysiphonia sp.
Halichondria panicea	Calliostoma zizyphinum	ECHINODERMATA	RHODOPHYTA	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Cryptopleura ramosa	CHROMOPHYTA
Haliclona sp.	Lacuna (Epheria) vincta	Henricia oculata	Palmaria palmata	Sphaerococcus coronopifolius	Delesseria sanguinea	Desmarestia viridis
CNIDARIA	Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata	Asterias rubens	Corallina officinalis	Plocamium cartilagineum	Membranoptera alata	Laminaria hyperborea
Obelia geniculata	Okenia nodosa	Echinus esculentus	Lithophyllum sp.	Lomentaria articulata	Phycodrys rubens