MBDP-NI: Site details Loughan Bay.

Priority species

Loughan Bay.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830825/06 Date: 1983-08-25 GPS: 55.18083,-6.03900. Depth: -35.0 to -36.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Highly abraded cobble slope dominated by Flustra with little else.

Species list (29 species recorded):

No biotope record.

PORIFERA
Iophonopsis nigricans P
CNIDARIA
Tubularia indivisa P
Ectopleura larynx P
Halecium beanii P
Halecium muricatum P
Abietinaria abietina P
Sertularella gayi P
Sertularia argentea P
Nemertesia antennina P
Plumularia setacea P
ANNELIDA
Filograna implexa P
CRUSTACEA
Anapagurus hyndmanni P
Macropodia rostrata P
MOLLUSCA
Tricolia (Tricolia) pullus P
Calliostoma zizyphinum P
BRYOZOA
Crisia denticulata P
Alcyonidium diaphanum P
Vesicularia spinosa P
Flustra foliacea P
Securiflustra securifrons P
Bugula avicularia P
Cellaria fistulosa P
ECHINODERMATA
Henricia oculata P
Ophiothrix fragilis P
Ophiocomina nigra P
Echinus esculentus P
TUNICATA
Polyclinum aurantium P
Dendrodoa grossularia P
PISCES
Scyliorhinus canicula P