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 and abundance (62 species recorded):

Biotope 1 Steromphala cineraria P Parasmittina trispinosa P Botryllus schlosseri P Schottera nicaeensis P Drachiella spectabilis P CHROMOPHYTA
PORIFERA Calliostoma zizyphinum P ECHINODERMATA RHODOPHYTA Plocamium cartilagineum P Erythroglossum laciniatum P Cutleria P
Sycon ciliatum P Polinices pulchellus P Henricia oculata P Porphyropsis coccinea P Lomentaria clavellosa P Haraldiophyllum bonnemaisonii P Dictyota dichotoma P
Amphilectus fucorum P Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata P Asterias rubens P Bonnemaisonia intricata P Lomentaria orcadensis P Hypoglossum hypoglossoides P Desmarestia aculeata P
Myxilla incrustans P BRYOZOA Ophiura albida P Lithophyllum sp. P Rhodymenia pseudopalmata P Membranoptera alata P Laminaria hyperborea P
CNIDARIA Crisia denticulata P Echinus esculentus P Dilsea carnosa P Ceramium sp. P Nitophyllum punctatum P Saccharina latissima P
Obelia geniculata P Crisia eburnea P TUNICATA Metacallophyllis laciniata P Ptilota gunneri P Phycodrys rubens P
Caryophyllia smithii P Alcyonidium diaphanum P Aplidium punctum P Kallymenia reniformis P Heterosiphonia plumosa P Brongniartella byssoides P
ANNELIDA Membranipora membranacea P Ascidiella aspersa P Erythrodermis traillii P Acrosorium venulosum P Odonthalia dentata P
Pomatoceros triqueter P Electra pilosa P Polycarpa pomaria P Phyllophora crispa P Cryptopleura ramosa P Polysiphonia stricta P
MOLLUSCA Bicellariella ciliata P Dendrodoa grossularia P Phyllophora pseudoceranoides P Delesseria sanguinea P Pterosiphonia parasitica P

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