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.

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	Laminaria saccharina