Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Bird Island Passage, Strangford Lough.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830804/02 Date: 1983-08-04 GPS: 54.47750,-5.57700. Depth: -15.0 to -16.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Mud with large amount of shell. Large numbers of Antedon and white Sagartia. Very few Modiolus.

Species list (40 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Urticina eques	Pomatoceros triqueter	Inachus dorsettensis	Buccinum undatum	Antedon bifida	Corella parallelogramma
Cliona celata	Cylista elegans	CRUSTACEA	Macropodia rostrata	Neptunea antiqua	Crossaster papposus	Ascidiella aspersa
Suberites carnosus	Sagartiogeton laceratus	Balanus crenatus	Cancer pagurus	Pleurobranchus membranaceus	Henricia oculata	Ascidiella scabra
Amphilectus fucorum	Sagartiogeton undatus	Crangon crangon	Polybius depurator	Modiolus modiolus	Asterias rubens	Dendrodoa grossularia
CNIDARIA	ANNELIDA	Pagurus bernhardus	Carcinus maenas	Aequipecten opercularis	Leptasterias muelleri	PISCES
Synarachnactis lloydii	Bispira volutacornis	Pisidia longicornis	MOLLUSCA	Mimachlamys varia	Thyone fusus	Pomatoschistus pictus
Epizoanthus couchii	Sabella pavonina	Hyas araneus	Ocenebra erinacea	ECHINODERMATA	TUNICATA