MBDP-NI: Site details N of Deserted Collieries, Fair Head.

Priority species

N of Deserted Collieries, Fair Head.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840621/01 Date: 1984-06-21 GPS: 55.22283,-6.17367 [ View map ]

Site Description: Plain of mainly small boulders with some coarse clean gravel. Kelp on many boulders but bottems rounded ie mobile. Fairly poor.

Species list (43 species recorded):

PORIFERA
Myxilla incrustans
CNIDARIA
Tubularia indivisa
Sertularia argentea
Obelia geniculata
Caryophyllia smithii
ANNELIDA
Pomatoceros triqueter
CRUSTACEA
Galathea strigosa
Xantho pilipes
MOLLUSCA
Steromphala cineraria
Calliostoma zizyphinum
Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata
Venus casina
BRYOZOA
Crisia eburnea
Alcyonidium diaphanum
Bicellariella ciliata
Parasmittina trispinosa
ECHINODERMATA
Henricia oculata
Asterias rubens
Leptasterias muelleri
Marthasterias glacialis
Psammechinus miliaris
Echinus esculentus
TUNICATA
Polyclinum aurantium
Sidnyum sp.
Aplidium punctum
Didemnum sp.
Corella parallelogramma
Ascidiella scabra
Ascidia mentula
Polycarpa pomaria
Polycarpa scuba
Botryllus schlosseri
RHODOPHYTA
Lithophyllum sp.
Metacallophyllis laciniata
Kallymenia reniformis
Phyllophora crispa
Plocamium cartilagineum
Rhodymenia pseudopalmata
Cryptopleura ramosa
Delesseria sanguinea
Hypoglossum hypoglossoides
Phycodrys rubens
CHROMOPHYTA
Laminaria hyperborea

No biotope record.

PORIFERA
Myxilla incrustans P
CNIDARIA
Tubularia indivisa P
Sertularia argentea P
Obelia geniculata P
Caryophyllia smithii P
ANNELIDA
Pomatoceros triqueter P
CRUSTACEA
Galathea strigosa P
Xantho pilipes P
MOLLUSCA
Steromphala cineraria P
Calliostoma zizyphinum P
Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata P
Venus casina P
BRYOZOA
Crisia eburnea P
Alcyonidium diaphanum P
Bicellariella ciliata P
Parasmittina trispinosa P
ECHINODERMATA
Henricia oculata P
Asterias rubens P
Leptasterias muelleri P
Marthasterias glacialis P
Psammechinus miliaris P
Echinus esculentus P
TUNICATA
Polyclinum aurantium P
Sidnyum sp. P
Aplidium punctum P
Didemnum sp. P
Corella parallelogramma P
Ascidiella scabra P
Ascidia mentula P
Polycarpa pomaria P
Polycarpa scuba P
Botryllus schlosseri P
RHODOPHYTA
Lithophyllum sp. P
Metacallophyllis laciniata P
Kallymenia reniformis P
Phyllophora crispa P
Plocamium cartilagineum P
Rhodymenia pseudopalmata P
Cryptopleura ramosa P
Delesseria sanguinea P
Hypoglossum hypoglossoides P
Phycodrys rubens P
CHROMOPHYTA
Laminaria hyperborea P