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Rue Point, Strangford Lough Narrows.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830811/08 Date: 1983-08-11 GPS: 54.36467,-5.54050. Depth: -2.0 to -2.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Plain of boulders mainly covered in Didemnids and areas of mobile cobbles. Boulders with kelp and fairly loose.

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Species list (64 species recorded)

PORIFERA Obelia geniculata Steromphala cineraria Cellepora pumicosa Ctenolabrus rupestris Peyssonnelia dubyi CHROMOPHYTA
Amphilectus fucorum Epizoanthus couchii Calliostoma zizyphinum ECHINODERMATA RHODOPHYTA Erythrodermis traillii Pseudolithoderma extensum
Halichondria bowerbanki Gonactinia prolifera Testudinalia testudinalis Henricia oculata Palmaria palmata Plocamium cartilagineum Desmarestia aculeata
Haliclona simulans Cylista elegans Trophon truncatus Ophiothrix fragilis Ahnfeltia plicata Callithamnion sp. Laminaria hyperborea
Dysidea fragilis ANNELIDA Buccinum undatum Echinus esculentus Hildenbrandia rubra Compsothamnion thuyoides Laminaria saccharina
CNIDARIA Nereis pelagica Hinia (Hima) incrassata Ocnus lacteus Lithophyllum sp. Halurus flosculosus CHLOROPHYTA
Ectopleura larynx Filograna implexa BRYOZOA TUNICATA Cruoria cruoriaeformis Cryptopleura ramosa Ulva lactuca
Eudendrium sp. CRUSTACEA Crisia denticulata Trididemnum cereum Dilsea carnosa Delesseria sanguinea Chaetomorpha melagonium
Eudendrium insigne Pisidia longicornis Alcyonidium diaphanum Didemnum sp. Chondrus crispus Membranoptera alata Cladophora sp.
Garveia nutans MOLLUSCA Membranipora membranacea Didemnum maculosum Plagiospora gracilis Phycodrys rubens Bryopsis plumosa
Sertularia argentea Leptochiton asellus Electra pilosa PISCES Metacallophyllis laciniata Odonthalia dentata

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