MBDP-NI: Site details Marlfield Bay, Strangford Lough.

Priority species

Invasive species

Marlfield Bay, Strangford Lough.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830809/04 Date: 1983-08-09 GPS: 54.40583,-5.58583 [ View map ]

Site Description: Sandy gravel with Ophiothrix abundant. A few dead shells.

Species list and abundance (33 species recorded):

PORIFERA	Hydrallmania falcata P	Urticina eques P	Polybius depurator P	Aequipecten opercularis P	ECHINODERMATA	Corella parallelogramma P
Sycon ciliatum P	Sertularia argentea P	Urticina felina P	Polybius pusillus P	BRYOZOA	Ophiothrix fragilis P	Ascidiella aspersa P
Amphilectus fucorum P	Sertularia cupressina P	CRUSTACEA	MOLLUSCA	Alcyonidium diaphanum P	Ophiocomina nigra P	PISCES
Suberites ficus P	Nemertesia antennina P	Balanus crenatus P	Buccinum undatum P	Eucratea loricata P	Ophiura albida P	Myoxocephalus scorpius P
CNIDARIA	Alcyonium digitatum P	Pagurus bernhardus P	Eubranchus tricolor P	Flustra foliacea P	TUNICATA	Pomatoschistus pictus P
Abietinaria abietina P	Synarachnactis lloydii P	Macropodia rostrata P	Pecten maximus P	Bugulina flabellata P	Ciona intestinalis P