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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 and abundance (69 species recorded):

Biotope 1	Synarachnactis lloydii P	Pagurus bernhardus P	Testudinalia testudinalis P	Bicellariella ciliata P	Clavelina lepadiformis P	RHODOPHYTA
PORIFERA	Anemonia viridis P	Galathea squamifera P	Ocenebra erinacea P	ECHINODERMATA	Distaplia rosea P	Lithophyllum sp. P
Oscarella sp. P	Urticina eques P	Galathea strigosa P	Buccinum undatum P	Antedon bifida P	Diplosoma spongiforme P	Cystoclonium purpureum P
Polymastia penicillus P	Cylista elegans P	Pisidia longicornis P	Hinia (Hima) incrassata P	Crossaster papposus P	Corella parallelogramma P	Delesseria sanguinea P
Cliona celata P	Cereus pedunculatus P	Hyas araneus P	Doris pseudoargus P	Henricia oculata P	Ascidiella aspersa P	CHROMOPHYTA
Stylostichon plumosum P	ANNELIDA	Inachus phalangium P	Aeolidia papillosa P	Asterias rubens P	Ascidia conchilega P	Cutleria P
Mycale rotalis P	Harmothoe impar P	Macropodia rostrata P	Talochlamys distorta P	Ophiothrix fragilis P	Dendrodoa grossularia P	Dictyota dichotoma P
CNIDARIA	Lepidonotus squamatus P	Cancer pagurus P	Astarte sulcata P	Ophiocomina nigra P	PISCES	Desmarestia aculeata P
Hydractinia echinata P	Chaetopterus variopedatus P	Necora puber P	Mya truncata P	Echinus esculentus P	Myoxocephalus scorpius P	Saccharina latissima P
Halecium halecinum P	Eupolymnia nebulosa P	Carcinus maenas P	BRYOZOA	Thyone fusus P	Pholis gunnellus P
Sertularia argentea P	Pomatoceros triqueter P	MOLLUSCA	Alcyonidium diaphanum P	Pawsonia saxicola P	Callionymus lyra P
Kirchenpaueria pinnata P	CRUSTACEA	Steromphala cineraria P	Electra pilosa P	TUNICATA	Pomatoschistus minutus P

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