Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Benbane Head.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840704/03 Date: 1984-07-04 GPS: 55.25017,-6.48833 [ View map ]

Site Description: Bedrock with patches of clean sand between. Furcellaria common on lower rock. Laminaria hyperborea dominant.

Species list (60 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Balanus crenatus	Electra pilosa	Aplidium punctum	Lithophyllum sp.	Plocamium cartilagineum	Phycodrys rubens
Pachymatisma johnstonia	Cancer pagurus	Bicellariella ciliata	Polycarpa scuba	Calliblepharis ciliata	Lomentaria clavellosa	Radicilingua thysanorhizans
Stelligera stuposa	MOLLUSCA	ECHINODERMATA	Dendrodoa grossularia	Dilsea carnosa	Ptilota gunneri	Odonthalia dentata
Tethya citrina	Steromphala cineraria	Crossaster papposus	Botryllus schlosseri	Furcellaria lumbricalis	Heterosiphonia plumosa	Polysiphonia stricta
Phorbas fictitius	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Henricia oculata	Botrylloides leachi	Chondrus crispus	Acrosorium venulosum	Pterosiphonia parasitica
Haliclona viscosa	Patella pellucida	Leptasterias muelleri	PISCES	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Cryptopleura ramosa	CHROMOPHYTA
Dysidea fragilis	Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata	TUNICATA	Scyliorhinus canicula	Kallymenia reniformis	Delesseria sanguinea	Dictyota dichotoma
CNIDARIA	Okenia nodosa	Polyclinum aurantium	Labrus bergylta	Meredithia microphylla	Haraldiophyllum bonnemaisonii	Desmarestia aculeata
Urticina felina	Limacia clavigera	Sidnyum turbinatum	RHODOPHYTA	Phyllophora crispa	Membranoptera alata	Laminaria hyperborea
CRUSTACEA	BRYOZOA	Aplidium nordmanni	Ahnfeltia plicata	Phyllophora pseudoceranoides	Nitophyllum punctatum	Laminaria saccharina