Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

E of Fair Head.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840619/03 Date: 1984-06-19 GPS: 55.21750,-6.11933 [ View map ]

Site Description: Plain of fairly large boulders with small boulders and some clean gravel between. Kelp not dense. A few battered epiphytes. Boulders rather bare.

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Species list (63 species recorded)

PORIFERA Alcyonium digitatum Calliostoma zizyphinum Crossaster papposus RHODOPHYTA Phyllophora pseudoceranoides Brongniartella byssoides
Sycon ciliatum Caryophyllia smithii Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata Henricia oculata Corallina officinalis Schottera nicaeensis Odonthalia dentata
Pachymatisma johnstonia ANNELIDA BRYOZOA Asterias rubens Lithophyllum sp. Stenogramme interrupta Pterosiphonia parasitica
Myxilla incrustans Sabella pavonina Crisia eburnea Marthasterias glacialis Calliblepharis ciliata Plocamium cartilagineum CHROMOPHYTA
CNIDARIA Pomatoceros triqueter Alcyonidium diaphanum Echinus esculentus Rhodophyllis divaricata Lomentaria orcadensis Cutleria
Tubularia indivisa CRUSTACEA Electra pilosa TUNICATA Dilsea carnosa Heterosiphonia plumosa Dictyota dichotoma
Halecium halecinum Cancer pagurus Bugulina flabellata Didemnum sp. Chondrus crispus Cryptopleura ramosa Laminaria hyperborea
Abietinaria abietina MOLLUSCA Bicellariella ciliata Corella parallelogramma Metacallophyllis laciniata Delesseria sanguinea Laminaria saccharina
Sertularia argentea Leptochiton asellus Parasmittina trispinosa Dendrodoa grossularia Kallymenia reniformis Hypoglossum hypoglossoides
Clytia hemisphaerica Tonicella marmorea Cellepora pumicosa PISCES Erythrodermis traillii Membranoptera alata
Obelia geniculata Steromphala cineraria ECHINODERMATA Taurulus bubalis Phyllophora crispa Phycodrys rubens

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