Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

W of Watson Rocks, Carlingford Lough.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840607/08 Date: 1984-06-07 GPS: 54.04133,-6.14683 [ View map ]

Site Description: Shell gravel plain with abundant shell debris and pebbles. Many infaunal bivaves: no samples. Ascidiella aspersa very abundant.

Species list and abundance (62 species recorded):

Biotope 1	Nemertesia ramosa P	Lanice conchilega P	Steromphala cineraria P	Asterias rubens P	RHODOPHYTA	Compsothamnion thuyoides P
PORIFERA	Plumularia setacea P	Pomatoceros triqueter P	Calliostoma zizyphinum P	Ophiothrix fragilis P	Ahnfeltia plicata P	Pterothamnion plumula P
Polymastia penicillus P	Obelia geniculata P	CRUSTACEA	Testudinalia testudinalis P	Ophiocomina nigra P	Lithophyllum sp. P	Spermothamnion repens P
Suberites carnosus P	Synarachnactis lloydii P	Balanus crenatus P	Ensis siliqua P	Ophiura albida P	Cystoclonium purpureum P	Delesseria sanguinea P
CNIDARIA	Urticina felina P	Pagurus bernhardus P	BRYOZOA	TUNICATA	Rhodophyllis divaricata P	Brongniartella byssoides P
Tubularia indivisa P	Cylista elegans P	Pisidia longicornis P	Alcyonidium diaphanum P	Clavelina lepadiformis P	Halarachnion ligulatum P	Polysiphonia sp. P
Bougainvillia ramosa P	Cereus pedunculatus P	Hyas araneus P	Bugulina flabellata P	Ascidiella aspersa P	Gracilaria gracilis P	CHROMOPHYTA
Halecium halecinum P	ANNELIDA	Macropodia rostrata P	Parasmittina trispinosa P	Dendrodoa grossularia P	Plocamium cartilagineum P	Dictyota dichotoma P
Hydrallmania falcata P	Chaetopterus variopedatus P	Carcinus maenas P	Cellepora pumicosa P	PISCES	Chylocladia verticillata P
Sertularia argentea P	Arenicola marina P	MOLLUSCA	ECHINODERMATA	Scyliorhinus canicula P	Lomentaria clavellosa P
Nemertesia antennina P	Amphitrite sp. P	Leptochiton asellus P	Antedon bifida P	Pholis gunnellus P	Antithamnion cruciatum P

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