Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Home
About
Mapping
Site list
Priority species
Invasive species
Species
Editor login

S of Sheep Is, Ballintoy.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830520/05 Date: 1983-05-20 GPS: 55.24450,-6.35150 [ View map ]

Site Description: Bar between sheep Is. And mainland. E. Side at bottom of large boulder slope with barren sand at 9m. Furcellaria forest with Polyclinum on boulders.

niss_1808.jpg niss_1809.jpg niss_1810.jpg niss_1811.jpg niss_1812.jpg
niss_1813.jpg

Species list (45 species recorded)

PORIFERA Steromphala cineraria Membranipora membranacea Aplidium punctum Calliblepharis ciliata Lomentaria articulata Desmarestia aculeata
Grantia compressa Calliostoma zizyphinum Scrupocellaria reptans Didemnum sp. Cystoclonium purpureum Heterosiphonia plumosa Alaria esculenta
Dysidea fragilis Elysia viridis TUNICATA Botryllus schlosseri Dilsea carnosa Cryptopleura ramosa Laminaria hyperborea
CNIDARIA Polycera quadrilineata Polyclinum aurantium RHODOPHYTA Furcellaria lumbricalis Delesseria sanguinea Laminaria saccharina
Obelia geniculata Sepiola (Heterosepiola) atlantica Synoicum pulmonaria Palmaria palmata Chondrus crispus Nitophyllum punctatum
Urticina felina BRYOZOA Morchellium argus Ahnfeltia plicata Metacallophyllis laciniata Phycodrys rubens
Actinothoe sphyrodeta Crisia eburnea Sidnyum sp. Corallina officinalis Kallymenia reniformis Odonthalia dentata
MOLLUSCA Alcyonidium diaphanum Sidnyum turbinatum Lithophyllum sp. Plocamium cartilagineum CHROMOPHYTA
Previous site Next site

Marine Biodiversity Data Portal NI