Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI
SE of Carrickfergus, Belfast Lough.
Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840515/04 Date: 1984-05-15 GPS: 54.69433,-5.78583. Depth: -7.0 to -8.0 m. [ View map ]
Site Description: Plain of soft mud with thin gravel/dead maerl layer. Occasional cobble with very large Metridium. Otherwise poor fauna of crabs and Asterias.
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Species list (17 species recorded)
| PORIFERA | Eudendrium sp. | Synarachnactis lloydii | Arenicola marina | Polybius depurator | ECHINODERMATA |
| Suberites carnosus | Eudendrium arbusculum | Metridium senile | Amphitrite sp. | Carcinus maenas | Asterias rubens |
| Amphilectus fucorum | Hydractinia echinata | Cylista elegans | CRUSTACEA | MOLLUSCA | TUNICATA |
| CNIDARIA | Alcyonium digitatum | ANNELIDA | Pagurus bernhardus | Coryphella gracilis | Dendrodoa grossularia |
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