MBDP-NI: Site details Ballycastle Bay.

Priority species

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

No biotope record.

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