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.

Species list (17 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Eudendrium sp.	Synarachnactis lloydii	Arenicola marina	Polybius depurator	ECHINODERMATA
Suberites carnosus	Eudendrium arbuscula	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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