Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

SE Hellyhunter Buoy, Cranfield Point.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850530/02 Date: 1985-05-30 GPS: 53.98817,-6.00850. Depth: -25.0 to -26.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Mixed area of cobbles; pebbles and mud; then gravel ripples; then boulders (limestone).

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Species list (44 species recorded)

PORIFERA Lytocarpia myriophyllum CRUSTACEA Cancer pagurus Vesicularia spinosa Ophiothrix fragilis Botryllus schlosseri
Plocamilla coriacea Alcyonium digitatum Balanus crenatus MOLLUSCA Bugulina flabellata Ophiocomina nigra Molgula manhattensis
CNIDARIA Virgularia mirabilis Astacilla longicornis Leptochiton asellus Cellaria fistulosa Ophiura albida PISCES
Corymorpha nutans Synarachnactis lloydii Pagurus bernhardus Calliostoma zizyphinum Parasmittina trispinosa Ophiura ophiura Syngnathus acus
Halecium halecinum ANNELIDA Munida rugosa Turbonilla (Cyrtoturbonilla) pumila ECHINODERMATA Echinus esculentus Callionymus lyra
Sertularella gayi Chaetopterus variopedatus Hyas coarctatus Antiopella cristata Astropecten irregularis TUNICATA
Kirchenpaueria pinnata Pomatoceros triqueter Inachus phalangium Pecten maximus Crossaster papposus Corella parallelogramma
Nemertesia ramosa Protula tubularia Macropodia rostrata BRYOZOA Asterias rubens Dendrodoa grossularia

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