Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Torr Head.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830826/02 Date: 1983-08-26 GPS: 55.19900,-6.06017. Depth: -17.0 to -18.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Bedrock slope with dense cover of small kelp plants and abundant red algae.

Species list (73 species recorded)

PORIFERA	CNIDARIA	Cancer pagurus	Marthasterias glacialis	Botryllus schlosseri	Dudresnaya verticillata	Heterosiphonia plumosa
Pachymatisma johnstonia	Tubularia indivisa	MOLLUSCA	Echinus esculentus	PISCES	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Acrosorium venulosum
Stelligera montagui	Ectopleura larynx	Steromphala cineraria	TUNICATA	Pollachius pollachius	Kallymenia reniformis	Cryptopleura ramosa
Stelligera stuposa	Sertularia argentea	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Polyclinum aurantium	Labrus bergylta	Meredithia microphylla	Delesseria sanguinea
Raspailia hispida	Nemertesia antennina	BRYOZOA	Sidnyum turbinatum	RHODOPHYTA	Phyllophora crispa	Haraldiophyllum bonnemaisonii
Polymastia boletiformis	Obelia geniculata	Crisia eburnea	Aplidium nordmanni	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides	Plocamium cartilagineum	Membranoptera alata
Hymedesmia paupertas	Actinothoe sphyrodeta	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Aplidium punctum	Bonnemaisonia intricata	Lomentaria orcadensis	Nitophyllum punctatum
Hemimycale columella	Caryophyllia smithii	ECHINODERMATA	Corella parallelogramma	Corallina officinalis	Rhodymenia ardissonei	Brongniartella byssoides
Amphilectus fucorum	ANNELIDA	Crossaster papposus	Ascidiella aspersa	Lithophyllum sp.	Rhodymenia pseudopalmata	Odonthalia dentata
Axinella infundibuliformis	Sabella pavonina	Henricia oculata	Ascidia mentula	Rhodophyllis divaricata	Halurus flosculosus	CHROMOPHYTA
Dysidea fragilis	CRUSTACEA	Asterias rubens	Ascidia virginea	Rhodophyllis werneri	Pterothamnion plumula	Dictyota dichotoma
Aplysilla sulfurea	Hyas araneus	Leptasterias muelleri	Polycarpa pomaria	Dilsea carnosa	Ptilota gunneri	Laminaria hyperborea

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