MBDP-NI: Site details Benbane Head.

Priority species

Non-indigenous species

Benbane Head.

[Site list for year 1984]

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):

No biotope record.

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