MBDP-NI: Site details SE of Kinbane Head, Ballycastle.

SE of Kinbane Head, Ballycastle.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840620/04 Date: 1984-06-20 GPS: 55.22283,-6.26567 [ View map ]

Site Description: Low lying bedrock covered with sand beside an area of barren rippled sand.

Species list and abundance (40 species recorded):

Biotope 1	Obelia geniculata P	Crisia eburnea P	Polyclinum aurantium P	Porphyropsis coccinea P	Delesseria sanguinea P	Alaria esculenta P
PORIFERA	ANNELIDA	Membranipora membranacea P	Sidnyum sp. P	Lithophyllum sp. P	Haraldiophyllum bonnemaisonii P	Laminaria hyperborea P
Dysidea fragilis P	Sabella pavonina P	Bicellariella ciliata P	Aplidium punctum P	Metacallophyllis laciniata P	Membranoptera alata P
Stelligera montagui P	MOLLUSCA	ECHINODERMATA	Didemnum sp. P	Kallymenia reniformis P	Phycodrys rubens P
Polymastia penicillus P	Steromphala cineraria P	Henricia oculata P	Polycarpa scuba P	Lomentaria clavellosa P	Odonthalia dentata P
Cliona celata P	Calliostoma zizyphinum P	Asterias rubens P	Dendrodoa grossularia P	Ptilota gunneri P	Polysiphonia stricta P
Halichondria panicea P	Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata P	Echinus esculentus P	Botryllus schlosseri P	Heterosiphonia plumosa P	CHROMOPHYTA
CNIDARIA	BRYOZOA	TUNICATA	RHODOPHYTA	Cryptopleura ramosa P	Desmarestia aculeata P