Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Torr Head.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830825/01 Date: 1983-08-25 GPS: 55.19983,-6.05700. Depth: -32.0 to -33.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Steep slope of broken bedrock. Areas dominated by Dendrodoa/Clathrina or Tubularia spp. Pachymatisma common.

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Species list (54 species recorded)

PORIFERA Halichondria bowerbanki Halopteris catharina Balanus crenatus Alcyonidium diaphanum Polyclinum aurantium RHODOPHYTA
Clathrina coriacea Haliclona viscosa Nemertesia antennina Homarus gammarus Bicellariella ciliata Didemnum sp. Lithophyllum sp.
Pachymatisma johnstonia Dysidea fragilis Nemertesia ramosa MOLLUSCA Cellaria fistulosa Corella parallelogramma Phyllophora crispa
Iophonopsis nigricans Aplysilla sulfurea Plumularia setacea Steromphala cineraria Parasmittina trispinosa Ascidia mentula Plocamium cartilagineum
Microciona spinarcus CNIDARIA Alcyonium digitatum Calliostoma zizyphinum ECHINODERMATA Dendrodoa grossularia Rhodymenia ardissonei
Hemimycale columella Tubularia indivisa Actinothoe sphyrodeta Doris pseudoargus Henricia oculata Botryllus schlosseri Rhodymenia pseudopalmata
Myxilla fimbriata Ectopleura larynx Caryophyllia smithii BRYOZOA Leptasterias muelleri PISCES Delesseria sanguinea
Myxilla incrustans Halecium halecinum CRUSTACEA Crisia denticulata Echinus esculentus Ctenolabrus rupestris Erythroglossum laciniatum
Amphilectus fucorum Sertularia argentea Chirona hameri Crisia eburnea TUNICATA Pholis gunnellus Phycodrys rubens

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