Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Carrickfergus Bank, Belfast Lough.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840515/05 Date: 1984-05-15 GPS: 54.70200,-5.79317 [ View map ]

Site Description: Level bottom with a layer of small stones and mud. Many Amphitrite sp. in burrows. Scattered Modiolus. Very large Metridium. Stones with tube worms.

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Species list (19 species recorded)

PORIFERA Synarachnactis lloydii Harmothoe impar CRUSTACEA Pagurus bernhardus MOLLUSCA Asterias rubens
Suberites ficus Metridium senile Amphitrite sp. Balanus crenatus Cancer pagurus Modiolus modiolus
CNIDARIA Cylista elegans Pomatoceros triqueter Crangon crangon Polybius depurator Arctica islandica
Alcyonium digitatum ANNELIDA Filograna implexa Anapagurus hyndmanni Carcinus maenas ECHINODERMATA

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