MBDP-NI: Site details Carrickfergus Bank, Belfast Lough.

Priority species

Carrickfergus Bank, Belfast Lough.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840515/06 Date: 1984-05-15 GPS: 54.70717,-5.79867 [ View map ]

Site Description: Level bottom with pebblles covered in tube worms. Amphitrite in mud Asterias abundant.

No images for site.

Species list (13 species recorded):

PORIFERA
Amphilectus fucorum
CNIDARIA
Alcyonium digitatum
ANNELIDA
Amphitrite sp.
Pomatoceros triqueter
Filograna implexa
CRUSTACEA
Balanus crenatus
Pagurus bernhardus
Polybius depurator
Carcinus maenas
ECHINODERMATA
Asterias rubens
RHODOPHYTA
Delesseria sanguinea
CHROMOPHYTA
Saccharina latissima
CHLOROPHYTA
Cladophora sp.

No biotope record.

PORIFERA
Amphilectus fucorum P
CNIDARIA
Alcyonium digitatum P
ANNELIDA
Amphitrite sp. P
Pomatoceros triqueter P
Filograna implexa P
CRUSTACEA
Balanus crenatus P
Pagurus bernhardus P
Polybius depurator P
Carcinus maenas P
ECHINODERMATA
Asterias rubens P
RHODOPHYTA
Delesseria sanguinea P
CHROMOPHYTA
Saccharina latissima P
CHLOROPHYTA
Cladophora sp. P