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SW of Sheep Is, Ballintoy.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830520/04 Date: 1983-05-20 GPS: 55.24633,-6.35417 [ View map ]

Site Description: Channel between Is. and headland. Huge limestone boulders with some flat scoured bedrock showing and smooth cobble. Sand on all flat surfaces.

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Species list (40 species recorded)

PORIFERA Tricolia (Tricolia) pullus Crisia eburnea Dendrodoa grossularia Chondrus crispus Lomentaria clavellosa Nitophyllum punctatum
Halichondria panicea Steromphala cineraria Membranipora membranacea Botryllus schlosseri Metacallophyllis laciniata Rhodymenia pseudopalmata Phycodrys rubens
Haliclona sp. Calliostoma zizyphinum ECHINODERMATA RHODOPHYTA Phyllophora crispa Ptilota gunneri Odonthalia dentata
CNIDARIA Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata Asterias rubens Palmaria palmata Phyllophora pseudoceranoides Heterosiphonia plumosa Polysiphonia sp.
Obelia geniculata Musculus costulatus Echinus esculentus Corallina officinalis Sphaerococcus coronopifolius Cryptopleura ramosa CHROMOPHYTA
Actinothoe sphyrodeta Musculus discors TUNICATA Lithophyllum sp. Plocamium cartilagineum Delesseria sanguinea Laminaria hyperborea
MOLLUSCA BRYOZOA Aplidium punctum Dilsea carnosa Lomentaria articulata Membranoptera alata
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