Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Ballygalley Head.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850524/03 Date: 1985-05-24 GPS: 54.90700,-5.85150 [ View map ]

Site Description: Plain of muddy sand with pebbles; more or less covered with embedded or loose boulders. Tall kelp forest and silty rock

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Species list (32 species recorded)

CNIDARIA	Hyas araneus	BRYOZOA	TUNICATA	Chondrus crispus	Delesseria sanguinea	Halopteris filicina
Tubularia indivisa	MOLLUSCA	Crisia denticulata	Aplidium punctum	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Membranoptera alata	Dictyota dichotoma
Caryophyllia smithii	Steromphala cineraria	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Didemnum sp.	Phyllophora crispa	Phycodrys rubens	Laminaria hyperborea
CRUSTACEA	Calliostoma zizyphinum	ECHINODERMATA	Polycarpa scuba	Plocamium cartilagineum	Brongniartella byssoides	Laminaria saccharina
Balanus crenatus	Pododesmus patelliformis	Henricia oculata	RHODOPHYTA	Lomentaria clavellosa	Odonthalia dentata
Pagurus bernhardus	Sepiola (Heterosepiola) atlantica	Ophiura albida	Lithophyllum sp.	Cryptopleura ramosa	CHROMOPHYTA