Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

NE of Skernaghan Point, Browns Bay.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830526/04 Date: 1983-05-26 GPS: 54.85967,-5.76433. Depth: -7.0 to -8.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Heavy muddy silt on uneven bedrock with dips, fissures, small gullies and occasional overhangs. Tall fairly dense kelp forest-ephizoites and ephiphytes.

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Species list and abundance (74 species recorded):

Biotope 1 Haliclona sp. P Elysia viridis P Ophiothrix fragilis P Didemnum sp. P Metacallophyllis laciniata P Nitophyllum punctatum P
PORIFERA CNIDARIA Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata P Ophiura albida P Diplosoma listerianum P Coccotylus truncata P Phycodrys rubens P
Oscarella sp. P Tubularia indivisa P Tritonia hombergii P Echinus esculentus P Ciona intestinalis P Phyllophora crispa P Brongniartella byssoides P
Dysidea fragilis P Urticina felina P BRYOZOA Aslia lefevrei P Corella parallelogramma P Plocamium cartilagineum P Odonthalia dentata P
Stelligera stuposa P Cylista elegans P Crisia eburnea P TUNICATA Ascidiella scabra P Lomentaria clavellosa P Polysiphonia stricta P
Polymastia penicillus P Caryophyllia smithii P Alcyonidium diaphanum P Clavelina lepadiformis P Polycarpa gracilis P Rhodymenia pseudopalmata P CHROMOPHYTA
Tethya citrina P ANNELIDA Flustrellidra hispida P Polyclinum aurantium P Polycarpa scuba P Halurus flosculosus P Laminaria hyperborea P
Cliona celata P Harmothoe impar P Scrupocellaria reptans P Synoicum pulmonaria P Botryllus schlosseri P Ptilota gunneri P
Amphilectus fucorum P Sabella pavonina P ECHINODERMATA Morchellium argus P PISCES Heterosiphonia plumosa P
Myxilla incrustans P Pomatoceros triqueter P Crossaster papposus P Sidnyum sp. P Ctenolabrus rupestris P Cryptopleura ramosa P
Myxilla rosacea P MOLLUSCA Henricia oculata P Sidnyum turbinatum P RHODOPHYTA Delesseria sanguinea P
Halichondria panicea P Steromphala cineraria P Asterias rubens P Aplidium nordmanni P Palmaria palmata P Hypoglossum hypoglossoides P
Suberites carnosus P Calliostoma zizyphinum P Leptasterias muelleri P Aplidium punctum P Calliblepharis ciliata P Membranoptera alata P

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