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NW Portstewart Point.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840705/07 Date: 1984-07-05 GPS: 55.19050,-6.72250. Depth: -7.0 to -8.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Rugged bed rock with many small gullies and vertical surfaces. Dense kelp forest.

Species list (89 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Urticina felina	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Marthasterias glacialis	Scyliorhinus canicula	Lomentaria orcadensis	Rhodomela confervoides
Leucosolenia sp.	Cylista elegans	Alcyonidium hirsutum	TUNICATA	RHODOPHYTA	Cordylecladia erecta	CHROMOPHYTA
Grantia compressa	Caryophyllia smithii	Membranipora membranacea	Clavelina lepadiformis	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides	Rhodymenia pseudopalmata	Dictyota dichotoma
Pachymatisma johnstonia	ANNELIDA	Electra pilosa	Polyclinum aurantium	Corallina officinalis	Ptilota gunneri	Desmarestia aculeata
Cliona celata	Filograna implexa	Bugulina flabellata	Morchellium argus	Lithophyllum sp.	Acrosorium venulosum	Desmarestia ligulata
Myxilla incrustans	CRUSTACEA	Bugulina turbinata	Sidnyum turbinatum	Rhodophyllis divaricata	Cryptopleura ramosa	Desmarestia viridis
Amphilectus fucorum	Eurynome spinosa	Crisularia plumosa	Aplidium nordmanni	Dilsea carnosa	Delesseria sanguinea	Laminaria hyperborea
Halichondria panicea	Cancer pagurus	Bicellariella ciliata	Aplidium punctum	Furcellaria lumbricalis	Erythroglossum laciniatum	CHLOROPHYTA
Dysidea fragilis	MOLLUSCA	Scrupocellaria scruposa	Didemnum sp.	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Haraldiophyllum bonnemaisonii	Ulva lactuca
CNIDARIA	Steromphala cineraria	Parasmittina trispinosa	Diplosoma listerianum	Kallymenia reniformis	Hypoglossum hypoglossoides	Chaetomorpha melagonium
Halecium halecinum	Calliostoma zizyphinum	ECHINODERMATA	Polycarpa scuba	Phyllophora crispa	Nitophyllum punctatum	Bryopsis plumosa
Sertularia argentea	Ocenebra erinacea	Antedon bifida	Dendrodoa grossularia	Phyllophora pseudoceranoides	Phycodrys rubens
Plumularia setacea	Acanthodoris pilosa	Henricia oculata	Botryllus schlosseri	Schottera nicaeensis	Brongniartella byssoides
Obelia geniculata	Doris pseudoargus	Asterias rubens	Botrylloides leachi	Plocamium cartilagineum	Odonthalia dentata
Alcyonium digitatum	BRYOZOA	Leptasterias muelleri	PISCES	Lomentaria clavellosa	Pterosiphonia parasitica

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