Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

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 (53 species recorded)

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