Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

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