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S of Watson Rocks, Carlingford Lough.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850529/02 Date: 1985-05-29 GPS: 54.04100,-6.14133 [ View map ]

Site Description: Plain of shelly gravel on mud with occasional cobble. Large outcrop of rock with very steep sides and fissures.

Species list (69 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Anemonia viridis	Galathea squamifera	Ocenebra erinacea	ECHINODERMATA	Distaplia rosea	Lithophyllum sp.
Oscarella sp.	Urticina eques	Galathea strigosa	Buccinum undatum	Antedon bifida	Diplosoma spongiforme	Cystoclonium purpureum
Cliona celata	Cylista elegans	Pisidia longicornis	Hinia (Hima) incrassata	Crossaster papposus	Corella parallelogramma	Delesseria sanguinea
Polymastia penicillus	Cereus pedunculatus	Hyas araneus	Doris pseudoargus	Henricia oculata	Ascidiella aspersa	CHROMOPHYTA
Stylostichon plumosum	ANNELIDA	Inachus phalangium	Aeolidia papillosa	Asterias rubens	Ascidia conchilega	Cutleria
Mycale rotalis	Harmothoe impar	Macropodia rostrata	Talochlamys distorta	Ophiothrix fragilis	Dendrodoa grossularia	Dictyota dichotoma
CNIDARIA	Lepidonotus squamatus	Cancer pagurus	Astarte sulcata	Ophiocomina nigra	PISCES	Desmarestia aculeata
Hydractinia echinata	Chaetopterus variopedatus	Necora puber	Mya truncata	Echinus esculentus	Myoxocephalus scorpius	Laminaria saccharina
Halecium halecinum	Eupolymnia nebulosa	Carcinus maenas	BRYOZOA	Thyone fusus	Pholis gunnellus
Sertularia argentea	Pomatoceros triqueter	MOLLUSCA	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Pawsonia saxicola	Callionymus lyra
Kirchenpaueria pinnata	CRUSTACEA	Steromphala cineraria	Electra pilosa	TUNICATA	Pomatoschistus minutus
Synarachnactis lloydii	Pagurus bernhardus	Testudinalia testudinalis	Bicellariella ciliata	Clavelina lepadiformis	RHODOPHYTA

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