Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Town Rock, Killyleagh, Strangford Lough.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830803/01 Date: 1983-08-03 GPS: 54.39367,-5.63667 [ View map ]

Site Description: Sandy mud with quite a lot of shell debris. Cobbles scattered everywhere some bored.

Species list and abundance (50 species recorded):

PORIFERA	Nemertesia ramosa P	Bispira volutacornis P	Galathea intermedia P	Buccinum undatum P	Echinus esculentus P	Trisopterus minutus P
Halichondria bowerbanki P	Virgularia mirabilis P	Pomatoceros triqueter P	Cancer pagurus P	Pecten maximus P	TUNICATA	Pleuronectes platessa P
Suberites carnosus P	Synarachnactis lloydii P	CHELICERATA	Polybius depurator P	Aequipecten opercularis P	Clavelina lepadiformis P	RHODOPHYTA
CNIDARIA	Urticina eques P	Endeis spinosa P	Necora puber P	Hiatella arctica P	Didemnum sp. P	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides P
Hydractinia echinata P	Sagartia lacerata P	CRUSTACEA	Carcinus maenas P	BRYOZOA	Corella parallelogramma P	Rhodophyllis divaricata P
Halecium halecinum P	Sagartia undata P	Balanus crenatus P	MOLLUSCA	Alcyonidium diaphanum P	Ascidiella aspersa P	Plocamium cartilagineum P
Abietinaria abietina P	Calliactis palliata P	Pandalus montagui P	Leptochiton asellus P	Electra pilosa P	Ascidia mentula P	CHROMOPHYTA
Sertularia argentea P	ANNELIDA	Crangon crangon P	Steromphala cineraria P	ECHINODERMATA	Dendrodoa grossularia P	Saccharina latissima P
Nemertesia antennina P	Amphitrite sp. P	Pagurus bernhardus P	Turritellinella communis P	Asterias rubens P	PISCES

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