Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

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.

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Species list (40 species recorded)

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

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