Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

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.

Species list (21 species recorded)

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