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

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 and abundance (43 species recorded):

Biotope 1	ANNELIDA	Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata P	Henricia oculata P	Sidnyum sp. P	Botryllus schlosseri P	Cryptopleura ramosa P
PORIFERA	Pomatoceros triqueter P	Venus casina P	Asterias rubens P	Aplidium punctum P	RHODOPHYTA	Delesseria sanguinea P
Myxilla incrustans P	CRUSTACEA	BRYOZOA	Leptasterias muelleri P	Didemnum sp. P	Lithophyllum sp. P	Hypoglossum hypoglossoides P
CNIDARIA	Galathea strigosa P	Crisia eburnea P	Marthasterias glacialis P	Corella parallelogramma P	Metacallophyllis laciniata P	Phycodrys rubens P
Tubularia indivisa P	Xantho pilipes P	Alcyonidium diaphanum P	Psammechinus miliaris P	Ascidiella scabra P	Kallymenia reniformis P	CHROMOPHYTA
Sertularia argentea P	MOLLUSCA	Bicellariella ciliata P	Echinus esculentus P	Ascidia mentula P	Phyllophora crispa P	Laminaria hyperborea P
Obelia geniculata P	Steromphala cineraria P	Parasmittina trispinosa P	TUNICATA	Polycarpa pomaria P	Plocamium cartilagineum P
Caryophyllia smithii P	Calliostoma zizyphinum P	ECHINODERMATA	Polyclinum aurantium P	Polycarpa scuba P	Rhodymenia pseudopalmata P