Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Cushendun Bay.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840530/07 Date: 1984-05-30 GPS: 55.12817,-6.02450 [ View map ]

Site Description: Plain of coarse sand with dead maerl (Thick globular type), few cobbles. Ophiothrix and Tubularia very common where there was suitable substrate.

Species list (24 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Rhizocaulus verticillatus	Pagurus pubescens	Calliostoma zizyphinum	ECHINODERMATA	Echinus esculentus	Lithophyllum sp.
Amphilectus fucorum	ANNELIDA	Ebalia tuberosa	Coryphella lineata	Crossaster papposus	TUNICATA	Phyllophora crispa
CNIDARIA	Chaetopterus variopedatus	Hyas coarctatus	Modiolus modiolus	Leptasterias muelleri	Polyclinum aurantium
Tubularia indivisa	Pomatoceros triqueter	MOLLUSCA	Pecten maximus	Ophiothrix fragilis	Synoicum pulmonaria
Hydrallmania falcata	CRUSTACEA	Gibbula (Colliculus) tumida	Aequipecten opercularis	Ophiocomina nigra	RHODOPHYTA

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