MBDP-NI: Site details Loughan Bay.

Loughan Bay.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830825/03 Date: 1983-08-25 GPS: 55.17450,-6.04283 [ View map ]

Site Description: Large boulders embedded in bottom with wide channels of gravel between. A few algae on pebbles in gravel.

Species list and abundance (53 species recorded):

Biotope 1	MOLLUSCA	Polyclinum aurantium P	Wildemania miniata P	Metacallophyllis laciniata P	Phycodrys rubens P	Saccharina latissima P
PORIFERA	Steromphala cineraria P	Sidnyum turbinatum P	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides P	Kallymenia reniformis P	Odonthalia dentata P	CHLOROPHYTA
Dysidea fragilis P	Calliostoma zizyphinum P	Didemnum sp. P	Bonnemaisonia intricata P	Phyllophora crispa P	Polysiphonia atlantica P	Ulva sp. P
Amphilectus fucorum P	Polycera quadrilineata P	Polycarpa scuba P	Palmaria palmata P	Lomentaria clavellosa P	Polysiphonia violacea P	Ulva lactuca P
CNIDARIA	BRYOZOA	Botryllus schlosseri P	Lithophyllum sp. P	Halurus flosculosus P	Polysiphonia stricta P
Obelia geniculata P	Crisia denticulata P	PISCES	Calliblepharis ciliata P	Acrosorium venulosum P	Pterosiphonia parasitica P
Synarachnactis lloydii P	Crisia eburnea P	Ctenolabrus rupestris P	Rhodophyllis divaricata P	Apoglossum ruscifolium P	CHROMOPHYTA
Urticina felina P	Alcyonidium diaphanum P	Pomatoschistus minutus P	Dilsea carnosa P	Cryptopleura ramosa P	Dictyota dichotoma P
ANNELIDA	Bicellariella ciliata P	RHODOPHYTA	Furcellaria lumbricalis P	Delesseria sanguinea P	Desmarestia aculeata P
Pomatoceros triqueter P	TUNICATA	Porphyra sp. P	Chondrus crispus P	Nitophyllum punctatum P	Laminaria hyperborea P