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Drumnakill Point, Murlough Bay.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840621/02 Date: 1984-06-21 GPS: 55.22450,-6.12933. Depth: -25.0 to -26.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Cobble-pebble bottom with small sparse Laminaria hyperborea and abundant ascidians Archidistoma frequent. Interesting site, high diversity.

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Species list (70 species recorded)

PORIFERA Axinella infundibuliformis Halopteris catharina MOLLUSCA Flustra foliacea Echinus esculentus PISCES
Sycon ciliatum Halichondria bowerbanki Nemertesia antennina Leptochiton asellus Securiflustra securifrons TUNICATA Microstomus kitt
Stelligera montagui Haliclona urceolus Nemertesia ramosa Boreochiton rubra Bugulina flabellata Archidistoma aggregatum RHODOPHYTA
Stelligera stuposa Dysidea fragilis Plumularia setacea Calliostoma zizyphinum Cellaria fistulosa Polyclinum aurantium Lithophyllum sp.
Raspailia ramosa Haliclona sp. Aglaophenia tubulifera Coryphella lineata ECHINODERMATA Synoicum pulmonaria Phyllophora crispa
Polymastia boletiformis CNIDARIA Epizoanthus couchii Edmundsella pedata Crossaster papposus Sidnyum turbinatum Delesseria sanguinea
Ophlitaspongia papilla Tubularia indivisa Caryophyllia smithii Venus casina Henricia oculata Aplidium nordmanni Hypoglossum hypoglossoides
Hymedesmia paupertas Ectopleura larynx ANNELIDA Eledone cirrhosa Leptasterias muelleri Aplidium punctum CHROMOPHYTA
Hemimycale columella Halecium halecinum Chaetopterus variopedatus BRYOZOA Marthasterias glacialis Diplosoma listerianum Laminaria hyperborea
Myxilla incrustans Abietinaria abietina Pomatoceros triqueter Crisia eburnea Ophiothrix fragilis Corella parallelogramma
Amphilectus fucorum Hydrallmania falcata CRUSTACEA Alcyonidium diaphanum Ophiocomina nigra Polycarpa scuba
Mycale rotalis Sertularella gayi Cancer pagurus Vesicularia spinosa Amphipholis squamata Botryllus schlosseri

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