MBDP-NI: Craigbrain, Ballywalter.

Craigbrain, Ballywalter.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840801/07 Date: 1984-08-01 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 (45 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Pomatoceros triqueter	Leptochiton asellus	Electra pilosa	TUNICATA	Lithophyllum sp.	Cryptopleura ramosa
Amphilectus fucorum	Filograna implexa	Steromphala cineraria	Bugulina flabellata	Dendrodoa grossularia	Rhodophyllis divaricata	Haraldiophyllum bonnemaisonii
Halichondria panicea	CRUSTACEA	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Parasmittina trispinosa	PISCES	Dilsea carnosa	Membranoptera alata
Haliclona viscosa	Balanus crenatus	Testudinalia testudinalis	Cellepora pumicosa	Pholis gunnellus	Chondrus crispus	Phycodrys rubens
CNIDARIA	Hyas araneus	Antiopella cristata	ECHINODERMATA	RHODOPHYTA	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Odonthalia dentata
Abietinaria abietina	Cancer pagurus	BRYOZOA	Asterias rubens	Porphyra sp.	Plocamium cartilagineum	CHROMOPHYTA
Urticina felina	Necora puber	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Leptasterias muelleri	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides	Ceramium sp.	Desmarestia aculeata
ANNELIDA	MOLLUSCA	Membranipora membranacea	Echinus esculentus	Corallina officinalis	Ptilota gunneri	Laminaria hyperborea