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Moville Buoy, Lough Foyle.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830621/06 Date: 1983-06-21 GPS: 55.18333,-7.03417. Depth: -7.0 to -8.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Rock slope at base of channel marker. Series of horizontal slabs very fissured and broken. Heavily silted. Quite rich.

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Species list (55 species recorded)

PORIFERA Eudendrium sp. Metridium senile Ancula gibbosa ECHINODERMATA Dilsea carnosa CHROMOPHYTA
Suberites carnosus Halecium halecinum Cylista elegans Acanthodoris pilosa Antedon bifida Chondrus crispus Desmarestia aculeata
Suberites ficus Hydrallmania falcata ANNELIDA Doris pseudoargus TUNICATA Gracilaria gracilis Laminaria hyperborea
Myxilla incrustans Sertularia cupressina Myrianida pinnigera Antiopella cristata Clavelina lepadiformis Chylocladia verticillata Laminaria saccharina
Amphilectus fucorum Nemertesia antennina CRUSTACEA Coryphella gracilis Dendrodoa grossularia Ceramium sp. CHLOROPHYTA
Halichondria bowerbanki Nemertesia ramosa Pagurus bernhardus Edmundsella pedata Botryllus schlosseri Delesseria sanguinea Chaetomorpha melagonium
Halichondria panicea Hartlaubella gelatinosa Cancer pagurus BRYOZOA PISCES Haraldiophyllum bonnemaisonii Bryopsis plumosa
Hymeniacidon perleve Obelia sp. Carcinus maenas Alcyonidium diaphanum Spinachia spinachia Hypoglossum hypoglossoides
Dysidea fragilis Alcyonium digitatum MOLLUSCA Electra pilosa Syngnathus acus Brongniartella byssoides
CNIDARIA Urticina felina Dendronotus frondosus Flustra foliacea RHODOPHYTA Odonthalia dentata

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