Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

S of St.John's Point, Dundrum Bay.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840824/01 Date: 1984-08-24 GPS: 54.20583,-5.67117 [ View map ]

Site Description: Very silty gravel bottem with boulders & cobbles - very barren. Lots of Asterias.

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Species list (19 species recorded)

PORIFERA CNIDARIA Alcyonium digitatum Eledone cirrhosa Crossaster papposus Ophiopholis aculeata Ascidia mentula
Cliona celata Sertularella polyzonias Metridium senile BRYOZOA Asterias rubens Ophiura albida
Suberites carnosus Nemertesia antennina MOLLUSCA Parasmittina trispinosa Ophiothrix fragilis Echinus esculentus
Amphilectus fucorum Nemertesia ramosa Facelina bostoniensis ECHINODERMATA Ophiocomina nigra TUNICATA

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