Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

S Green Island, Carlingford Lough.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840607/04 Date: 1984-06-07 GPS: 54.02867,-6.10967. Depth: -14.0 to -15.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Flat bedrock covered with a layer of muddy silt. Huge patches of Polymastia mammilaris.

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Species list and abundance (24 species recorded):

Biotope 1 Amphilectus fucorum P Halecium halecinum P Urticina felina P Inachus dorsettensis P Crossaster papposus P
PORIFERA Hemimycale columella P Sertularia argentea P Cylista elegans P BRYOZOA Asterias rubens P
Polymastia boletiformis P Suberites carnosus P Nemertesia antennina P CRUSTACEA Alcyonidium diaphanum P Ophiothrix fragilis P
Polymastia penicillus P CNIDARIA Alcyonium digitatum P Pagurus bernhardus P Bugulina flabellata P Ophiocomina nigra P
Cliona celata P Tubularia indivisa P Epizoanthus couchii P Hyas araneus P ECHINODERMATA Echinus esculentus P

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