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S of Ballygalley Head.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840626/03 Date: 1984-06-26 GPS: 54.88867,-5.83217 [ View map ]

Site Description: Smooth boulders with sparse red algae and large kelp plants with silted blades. Kelp stipes with abundant Didemnid & Polyclinid squirts.

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Species list and abundance (37 species recorded):

Biotope 1 Steromphala cineraria P Alcyonidium hirsutum P Didemnum sp. P RHODOPHYTA Ptilota gunneri P Polysiphonia stricta P
PORIFERA Calliostoma zizyphinum P Electra pilosa P Didemnum maculosum P Dilsea carnosa P Heterosiphonia plumosa P CHROMOPHYTA
Dysidea fragilis P Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata P ECHINODERMATA Polycarpa pomaria P Chondrus crispus P Acrosorium venulosum P Desmarestia aculeata P
Halichondria panicea P Acanthodoris pilosa P Crossaster papposus P Dendrodoa grossularia P Metacallophyllis laciniata P Delesseria sanguinea P Laminaria hyperborea P
ANNELIDA BRYOZOA TUNICATA Botryllus schlosseri P Phyllophora pseudoceranoides P Phycodrys rubens P Saccharina latissima P
Spirorbis sp. P Crisia denticulata P Sidnyum turbinatum P PISCES Plocamium cartilagineum P Brongniartella byssoides P
MOLLUSCA Alcyonidium diaphanum P Aplidium punctum P Ctenolabrus rupestris P Compsothamnion thuyoides P Odonthalia dentata P

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