MBDP-NI: Site details N of Highlandman Rock, Maidens.

N of Highlandman Rock, Maidens.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830525/04 Date: 1983-05-25 GPS: 54.95533,-5.73067. Depth: -8.0 to -9.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Almost vertical bedrock with gullies-dominated by T. indivisa. But still many individual very large kelp plants.

Species list and abundance (42 species recorded):

Biotope 1	CNIDARIA	Metridium senile P	Cancer pagurus P	Membranipora membranacea P	Polycarpa scuba P	Cryptopleura ramosa P
PORIFERA	Tubularia indivisa P	Cylista elegans P	Necora puber P	ECHINODERMATA	Botryllus schlosseri P	Delesseria sanguinea P
Pachymatisma johnstonia P	Ectopleura larynx P	Actinothoe sphyrodeta P	MOLLUSCA	Henricia oculata P	RHODOPHYTA	CHROMOPHYTA
Axinella infundibuliformis P	Halecium halecinum P	Corynactis viridis P	Calliostoma zizyphinum P	Asterias rubens P	Lithophyllum sp. P	Laminaria hyperborea P
Polymastia boletiformis P	Abietinaria abietina P	Caryophyllia smithii P	Patella pellucida P	Marthasterias glacialis P	Dilsea carnosa P
Polymastia penicillus P	Sertularella gayi P	CRUSTACEA	Coryphella lineata P	Ophiopholis aculeata P	Phyllophora crispa P
Myxilla incrustans P	Alcyonium digitatum P	Homarus gammarus P	BRYOZOA	Echinus esculentus P	Plocamium cartilagineum P
Haliclona sp. P	Urticina felina P	Inachus dorsettensis P	Alcyonidium diaphanum P	TUNICATA	Ptilota gunneri P