MBDP-NI: Site details Town Rock, Killyleagh, Strangford Lough.

Priority species

Town Rock, Killyleagh, Strangford Lough.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830803/02 Date: 1983-08-03 GPS: 54.39350,-5.63867 [ View map ]

Site Description: Mud plain with occasional cobble.

Species list (34 species recorded):

PORIFERA
Halichondria bowerbanki
Suberites carnosus
CNIDARIA
Hydractinia echinata
Halecium halecinum
Abietinaria abietina
Sertularia argentea
Virgularia mirabilis
Synarachnactis lloydii
Sagartia lacerata
ANNELIDA
Aphrodita aculeata
Bispira volutacornis
Pomatoceros triqueter
CRUSTACEA
Balanus crenatus
Crangon crangon
Pagurus bernhardus
Cancer pagurus
Polybius depurator
Carcinus maenas
MOLLUSCA
Tonicella marmorea
Steromphala cineraria
Turritellinella tricarinata
Aporrhais pespelecani
Buccinum undatum
Pecten maximus
Aequipecten opercularis
BRYOZOA
Alcyonidium diaphanum
Electra pilosa
ECHINODERMATA
Asterias rubens
TUNICATA
Clavelina lepadiformis
Didemnum sp.
PISCES
Pleuronectes platessa
RHODOPHYTA
Schottera nicaeensis
CHROMOPHYTA
Saccharina latissima
CHLOROPHYTA
Ulva sp.

No biotope record.

PORIFERA
Halichondria bowerbanki P
Suberites carnosus P
CNIDARIA
Hydractinia echinata P
Halecium halecinum P
Abietinaria abietina P
Sertularia argentea P
Virgularia mirabilis P
Synarachnactis lloydii P
Sagartia lacerata P
ANNELIDA
Aphrodita aculeata P
Bispira volutacornis P
Pomatoceros triqueter P
CRUSTACEA
Balanus crenatus P
Crangon crangon P
Pagurus bernhardus P
Cancer pagurus P
Polybius depurator P
Carcinus maenas P
MOLLUSCA
Tonicella marmorea P
Steromphala cineraria P
Turritellinella tricarinata P
Aporrhais pespelecani P
Buccinum undatum P
Pecten maximus P
Aequipecten opercularis P
BRYOZOA
Alcyonidium diaphanum P
Electra pilosa P
ECHINODERMATA
Asterias rubens P
TUNICATA
Clavelina lepadiformis P
Didemnum sp. P
PISCES
Pleuronectes platessa P
RHODOPHYTA
Schottera nicaeensis P
CHROMOPHYTA
Saccharina latissima P
CHLOROPHYTA
Ulva sp. P