MBDP-NI: Site details SE of Abbey Rock, Strangford Lough.

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.

Species list and abundance (42 species recorded):

Biotope 1	Obelia geniculata P	Aequipecten opercularis P	Ophiocomina nigra P	Ascidia conchilega P	Heterosiphonia plumosa P	CHROMOPHYTA
PORIFERA	CRUSTACEA	BRYOZOA	Ophiura albida P	Ascidia mentula P	Delesseria sanguinea P	Dictyota dichotoma P
Grantia compressa P	Macropodia rostrata P	Electra pilosa P	Echinus esculentus P	RHODOPHYTA	Membranoptera alata P	Desmarestia aculeata P
Cliona celata P	Necora puber P	Scrupocellaria reptans P	Thyone fusus P	Porphyra sp. P	Phycodrys rubens P	Laminaria hyperborea P
Mycale sp. P	MOLLUSCA	ECHINODERMATA	Thyone roscovita P	Lithophyllum sp. P	Brongniartella byssoides P
Mycale subclavata P	Tonicella marmorea P	Antedon bifida P	TUNICATA	Metacallophyllis laciniata P	Odonthalia dentata P
CNIDARIA	Steromphala cineraria P	Leptasterias muelleri P	Clavelina lepadiformis P	Compsothamnion thuyoides P	Polysiphonia stricta P
Obelia dichotoma P	Calliostoma zizyphinum P	Ophiothrix fragilis P	Ciona intestinalis P	Spermothamnion repens P	Pterosiphonia parasitica P