MBDP-NI: Site details Whitehead, Belfast Lough.

Priority species

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.

Species list (23 species recorded):

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

No biotope record.

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