Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Whitehead, Belfast Lough.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840524/01 Date: 1984-05-24 GPS: 54.75517,-5.69933 [ View map ]

Site Description: Sparse kelp plants on small boulders with patches of muddy gravel between.

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Species list (23 species recorded)

CNIDARIA Pagurus bernhardus MOLLUSCA Alcyonidium diaphanum RHODOPHYTA Delesseria sanguinea
Tubularia indivisa Galathea squamifera Tonicella marmorea ECHINODERMATA Cystoclonium purpureum Phycodrys rubens
Sertularella polyzonias Macropodia rostrata Steromphala cineraria Asterias rubens Plocamium cartilagineum CHROMOPHYTA
Caryophyllia smithii Cancer pagurus Calliostoma zizyphinum Ophiura albida Pterothamnion plumula Desmarestia aculeata
CRUSTACEA Necora puber BRYOZOA Echinus esculentus Heterosiphonia plumosa Laminaria hyperborea

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