MBDP-NI: Site details Whitehead, Belfast Lough.

Priority species

Whitehead, Belfast Lough.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840524/02 Date: 1984-05-24 GPS: 54.75667,-5.69900 [ View map ]

Site Description: Dense kelp forest with heavily silted boulders beneath. Reasonable numbers of red algae. Few animals.

Species list (18 species recorded):

PORIFERA
Halichondria panicea
MOLLUSCA
Steromphala cineraria
ECHINODERMATA
Asterias rubens
Echinus esculentus
RHODOPHYTA
Cystoclonium purpureum
Metacallophyllis laciniata
Plocamium cartilagineum
Lomentaria clavellosa
Heterosiphonia plumosa
Delesseria sanguinea
Membranoptera alata
Nitophyllum punctatum
Phycodrys rubens
Brongniartella byssoides
Odonthalia dentata
CHROMOPHYTA
Dictyota dichotoma
Desmarestia aculeata
Laminaria hyperborea

No biotope record.

PORIFERA
Halichondria panicea P
MOLLUSCA
Steromphala cineraria P
ECHINODERMATA
Asterias rubens P
Echinus esculentus P
RHODOPHYTA
Cystoclonium purpureum P
Metacallophyllis laciniata P
Plocamium cartilagineum P
Lomentaria clavellosa P
Heterosiphonia plumosa P
Delesseria sanguinea P
Membranoptera alata P
Nitophyllum punctatum P
Phycodrys rubens P
Brongniartella byssoides P
Odonthalia dentata P
CHROMOPHYTA
Dictyota dichotoma P
Desmarestia aculeata P
Laminaria hyperborea P