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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.

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Species list (42 species recorded)

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

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