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Benbane Head.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840704/01 Date: 1984-07-04 GPS: 55.25450,-6.48567 [ View map ]

Site Description: Ridge running out to sea with vertical face 3-4m high. Below shallow sloping bedrock & boulders with Flustra & Securiflustra.

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Species list (59 species recorded)

PORIFERA Halecium halecinum Caryophyllia smithii Polycera faeroensis Cellaria sinuosa Morchellium argus Molgula manhattensis
Pachymatisma johnstonia Abietinaria abietina CRUSTACEA Antiopella cristata Parasmittina trispinosa Sidnyum sp. PISCES
Cliona celata Sertularia argentea Pagurus cuanensis BRYOZOA ECHINODERMATA Sidnyum turbinatum Pollachius virens
Stelligera montagui Nemertesia antennina Galathea strigosa Alcyonidium diaphanum Crossaster papposus Aplidium nordmanni Ctenolabrus rupestris
Raspailia ramosa Plumularia setacea Cancer pagurus Flustra foliacea Henricia oculata Aplidium punctum Labrus bergylta
Polymastia boletiformis Alcyonium digitatum Pilumnus hirtellus Securiflustra securifrons Asterias rubens Didemnum sp. RHODOPHYTA
Polymastia penicillus Urticina eques MOLLUSCA Bugulina flabellata Echinus esculentus Corella parallelogramma Lithophyllum sp.
Tethya citrina Urticina felina Calliostoma zizyphinum Crisularia plumosa TUNICATA Polycarpa pomaria Phyllophora crispa
Dysidea fragilis Cylista elegans Ocenebra erinacea Bicellariella ciliata Clavelina lepadiformis Polycarpa scuba
CNIDARIA Actinothoe sphyrodeta Hinia (Hima) incrassata Cellaria fistulosa Polyclinum aurantium Botryllus schlosseri
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