Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

SE of Abbey Rock, Strangford Lough.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830601/03 Date: 1983-06-01 GPS: 54.42583,-5.58650. Depth: -7.0 to -8.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Boulders and cobbles embedded in muddy gravel. Big bushes of Desmarestia with scattered small kelp plants.

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Species list (42 species recorded)

PORIFERA CRUSTACEA BRYOZOA Ophiura albida Ascidia mentula Delesseria sanguinea Dictyota dichotoma
Grantia compressa Macropodia rostrata Electra pilosa Echinus esculentus RHODOPHYTA Membranoptera alata Desmarestia aculeata
Cliona celata Necora puber Scrupocellaria reptans Thyone fusus Porphyra sp. Phycodrys rubens Laminaria hyperborea
Mycale subclavata MOLLUSCA ECHINODERMATA Thyone roscovita Lithophyllum sp. Brongniartella byssoides
Mycale sp. Tonicella marmorea Antedon bifida TUNICATA Metacallophyllis laciniata Odonthalia dentata
CNIDARIA Steromphala cineraria Leptasterias muelleri Clavelina lepadiformis Compsothamnion thuyoides Polysiphonia stricta
Obelia dichotoma Calliostoma zizyphinum Ophiothrix fragilis Ciona intestinalis Spermothamnion repens Pterosiphonia parasitica
Obelia geniculata Aequipecten opercularis Ophiocomina nigra Ascidia conchilega Heterosiphonia plumosa CHROMOPHYTA

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