Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Red Bay.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840531/01 Date: 1984-05-31 GPS: 55.06400,-6.00783 [ View map ]

Site Description: Mud bottom with patches of boulders. The boulders have a rich epifauna especially sponges and bryozoans.

Species list (41 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Halichondria bowerbanki	Caryophyllia smithii	Acanthodoris pilosa	Vesicularia spinosa	Marthasterias glacialis	PISCES
Cliona celata	CNIDARIA	ANNELIDA	Favorinus blianus	Flustra foliacea	Ophiura albida	Callionymus lyra
Raspailia hispida	Sertularella gayi	Chaetopterus variopedatus	Pecten maximus	Cellaria fistulosa	Ophiura ophiura
Polymastia boletiformis	Nemertesia antennina	CRUSTACEA	Astarte sulcata	ECHINODERMATA	TUNICATA
Polymastia penicillus	Nemertesia ramosa	Pagurus prideaux	Acanthocardia echinata	Porania pulvillus	Corella parallelogramma
Suberites carnosus	Aglaophenia tubulifera	Inachus phalangium	Arctica islandica	Solaster endeca	Ascidiella scabra
Amphilectus fucorum	Virgularia mirabilis	MOLLUSCA	BRYOZOA	Crossaster papposus	Ascidia virginea
Axinella infundibuliformis	Capnea sanguinea	Diaphorodoris luteocincta	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Henricia oculata	Polycarpa pomaria