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Ballycastle Bay.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840620/05 Date: 1984-06-20 GPS: 55.21583,-6.22750 [ View map ]

Site Description: Very bare boulders and cobbles and sterile patches of pebbles. Some kelp plants but very few animals.

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Species list and abundance (21 species recorded):

Biotope 1 Tubularia indivisa P Calliostoma zizyphinum P ECHINODERMATA Ascidia mentula P Lithophyllum sp. P Laminaria hyperborea P
PORIFERA Nemertesia antennina P Trivia arctica P Asterias rubens P Polycarpa pomaria P Plocamium cartilagineum P
Dysidea fragilis P Aglaophenia tubulifera P Diaphorodoris luteocincta P Echinus esculentus P PISCES Hypoglossum hypoglossoides P
Axinella infundibuliformis P Obelia geniculata P BRYOZOA TUNICATA Ctenolabrus rupestris P Phycodrys rubens P
CNIDARIA MOLLUSCA Parasmittina trispinosa P Corella parallelogramma P RHODOPHYTA CHROMOPHYTA
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