Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

W of Craigbrain, Ballywalter.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840731/07 Date: 1984-07-31 GPS: 54.57067,-5.46900 [ View map ]

Site Description: Ridges of bedrock with gullies between. Dense kelp forest. All surfaces very heavily silted.

Species list (48 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Carcinus maenas	TUNICATA	Corallina officinalis	Ceramium sp.	CHROMOPHYTA	Enteromorpha sp.
Halichondria panicea	MOLLUSCA	Clavelina lepadiformis	Lithophyllum sp.	Halurus flosculosus	Scytosiphon lomentaria	Ulva lactuca
CNIDARIA	Gibbula (Colliculus) tumida	Dendrodoa grossularia	Dilsea carnosa	Ptilota gunneri	Dictyota dichotoma	Chaetomorpha melagonium
Anemonia viridis	Steromphala cineraria	Botryllus schlosseri	Chondrus crispus	Cryptopleura ramosa	Desmarestia aculeata	Cladophora sp.
Urticina felina	Testudinalia testudinalis	PISCES	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Membranoptera alata	Chorda filum	Cladophora rupestris
ANNELIDA	ECHINODERMATA	Taurulus bubalis	Erythrodermis traillii	Phycodrys rubens	Laminaria hyperborea
Pomatoceros triqueter	Henricia oculata	RHODOPHYTA	Plocamium cartilagineum	Odonthalia dentata	Laminaria saccharina
CRUSTACEA	Asterias rubens	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides	Lomentaria articulata	Polysiphonia sp.	Halidrys siliquosa
Balanus crenatus	Ophiura albida	Ahnfeltia plicata	Cordylecladia erecta	Pterosiphonia parasitica	CHLOROPHYTA