Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Cushendun Bay.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830826/08 Date: 1983-08-26 GPS: 55.13017,-6.02933 [ View map ]

Site Description: Gravel and pebble with a thin covering of maerl. Scattered algae attached to shells and pebbles.

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Species list (40 species recorded)

PORIFERA Nemertesia antennina Alcyonidium diaphanum Leptasterias muelleri Bonnemaisonia asparagoides Metacallophyllis laciniata Heterosiphonia plumosa
Halichondria bowerbanki ANNELIDA Vesicularia spinosa Ophiura albida Bonnemaisonia intricata Kallymenia reniformis Acrosorium venulosum
Halichondria panicea Chaetopterus variopedatus Amathia lendigera Neopentadactyla mixta Lithophyllum sp. Phyllophora crispa Cryptopleura ramosa
CNIDARIA MOLLUSCA Flustra foliacea TUNICATA Schmitzia neapolitana Plocamium cartilagineum CHROMOPHYTA
Corymorpha nutans Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata ECHINODERMATA Botryllus schlosseri Dilsea carnosa Compsothamnion thuyoides Dictyota dichotoma
Hydrallmania falcata BRYOZOA Crossaster papposus RHODOPHYTA Dudresnaya verticillata Halurus flosculosus Laminaria hyperborea
Sertularia argentea Crisia eburnea Asterias rubens Scinaia interrupta Halarachnion ligulatum Pterothamnion plumula Saccharina latissima

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