Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Holm Bay, Strangford Lough.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830803/05 Date: 1983-08-03 GPS: 54.40483,-5.62917. Depth: -25.0 to -26.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Very large and small limestone boulders on firm muddy gravel bottom. Abundant epifauna on boulders.

Species list (60 species recorded)

PORIFERA	CNIDARIA	CRUSTACEA	Polybius pusillus	Doris pseudoargus	Cellepora pumicosa	TUNICATA
Leucosolenia sp.	Halecium halecinum	Balanus crenatus	Necora puber	Antiopella cristata	ECHINODERMATA	Clavelina lepadiformis
Cliona celata	Nemertesia antennina	Pandalus montagui	Carcinus maenas	Eubranchus tricolor	Antedon bifida	Morchellium argus
Stelligera montagui	Nemertesia ramosa	Homarus gammarus	MOLLUSCA	Pecten maximus	Crossaster papposus	Aplidium nordmanni
Stelligera stuposa	Urticina eques	Pagurus bernhardus	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Aequipecten opercularis	Asterias rubens	Didemnum sp.
Raspailia ramosa	Edwardsiella carnea	Munida rugosa	Lacuna (Lacuna) crassior	BRYOZOA	Ophiothrix fragilis	Ascidia mentula
Polymastia penicillus	ANNELIDA	Inachus dorsettensis	Doto fragilis	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Ophiocomina nigra	PISCES
Suberites carnosus	Adyte pellucida	Macropodia rostrata	Ancula gibbosa	Eucratea loricata	Ophiopholis aculeata	Trisopterus luscus
Tethya citrina	Harmothoe impar	Cancer pagurus	Acanthodoris pilosa	Flustra foliacea	Ophiura albida	Callionymus lyra
Halichondria bowerbanki	Chaetopterus variopedatus	Polybius depurator	Polycera quadrilineata	Cellaria fistulosa	Echinus esculentus

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