MBDP-NI: Whitehead, Belfast Lough.

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