Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Benbane Head.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840704/04 Date: 1984-07-04 GPS: 55.25000,-6.48850 [ View map ]

Site Description: Vertical rockface with covering of Dendrodoa and Corallina overgrown by Laminaria.

Species list (32 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Diphasia rosacea	Leptasterias muelleri	Pollachius pollachius	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Membranoptera alata	Desmarestia aculeata
Clathrina coriacea	Plumularia setacea	TUNICATA	RHODOPHYTA	Kallymenia reniformis	Phycodrys rubens	Desmarestia viridis
Pachymatisma johnstonia	MOLLUSCA	Polyclinum aurantium	Palmaria palmata	Meredithia microphylla	Odonthalia dentata	Alaria esculenta
Amphilectus fucorum	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Sidnyum turbinatum	Corallina officinalis	Plocamium cartilagineum	Polysiphonia stricta	Laminaria hyperborea
Halichondria panicea	ECHINODERMATA	Dendrodoa grossularia	Lithophyllum sp.	Ptilota gunneri	Pterosiphonia parasitica
CNIDARIA	Henricia oculata	PISCES	Dilsea carnosa	Cryptopleura ramosa	CHROMOPHYTA