Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

SE of Kinbane Head, Ballycastle.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840620/03 Date: 1984-06-20 GPS: 55.22033,-6.26533 [ View map ]

Site Description: Area of boulder with patches of cobble in sand and some sand gravel patches.

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Species list (62 species recorded)

PORIFERA Calliostoma zizyphinum ECHINODERMATA RHODOPHYTA Plocamium cartilagineum Erythroglossum laciniatum Cutleria
Sycon ciliatum Polinices pulchellus Henricia oculata Porphyropsis coccinea Lomentaria clavellosa Haraldiophyllum bonnemaisonii Dictyota dichotoma
Myxilla incrustans Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata Asterias rubens Bonnemaisonia intricata Lomentaria orcadensis Hypoglossum hypoglossoides Desmarestia aculeata
Amphilectus fucorum BRYOZOA Ophiura albida Lithophyllum sp. Rhodymenia pseudopalmata Membranoptera alata Laminaria hyperborea
CNIDARIA Crisia denticulata Echinus esculentus Dilsea carnosa Ceramium sp. Nitophyllum punctatum Laminaria saccharina
Obelia geniculata Crisia eburnea TUNICATA Metacallophyllis laciniata Ptilota gunneri Phycodrys rubens
Caryophyllia smithii Alcyonidium diaphanum Aplidium punctum Kallymenia reniformis Heterosiphonia plumosa Brongniartella byssoides
ANNELIDA Membranipora membranacea Ascidiella aspersa Erythrodermis traillii Acrosorium venulosum Odonthalia dentata
Pomatoceros triqueter Electra pilosa Polycarpa pomaria Phyllophora crispa Cryptopleura ramosa Polysiphonia stricta
MOLLUSCA Bicellariella ciliata Dendrodoa grossularia Phyllophora pseudoceranoides Delesseria sanguinea Pterosiphonia parasitica
Steromphala cineraria Parasmittina trispinosa Botryllus schlosseri Schottera nicaeensis Drachiella spectabilis CHROMOPHYTA

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