Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Loughan Bay.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830825/05 Date: 1983-08-25 GPS: 55.18017,-6.03917. Depth: -25.0 to -26.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Plain of cobbles. Occassional boulder.

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Species list (43 species recorded)

PORIFERA Abietinaria abietina ANNELIDA MOLLUSCA Crisia denticulata Asterias rubens PISCES
Stelligera stuposa Sertularia argentea Chaetopterus variopedatus Steromphala cineraria Alcyonidium diaphanum Marthasterias glacialis Lophius piscatorius
Polymastia penicillus Nemertesia antennina Pomatoceros triqueter Calliostoma zizyphinum Vesicularia spinosa Ophiothrix fragilis RHODOPHYTA
Iophonopsis nigricans Nemertesia ramosa Filograna implexa Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata Flustra foliacea Ophiocomina nigra Lithophyllum sp.
Mycale rotalis Plumularia setacea CRUSTACEA Diaphorodoris luteocincta Securiflustra securifrons Ophiopholis aculeata Rhodymenia ardissonei
Halichondria bowerbanki Aglaophenia tubulifera Munida rugosa Acanthodoris pilosa Parasmittina trispinosa Echinus esculentus Acrosorium venulosum
CNIDARIA NEMERTEA Inachus phalangium Aequipecten opercularis ECHINODERMATA TUNICATA
Ectopleura larynx Tubulanus annulatus Cancer pagurus BRYOZOA Crossaster papposus Ascidia mentula

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