MBDP-NI: Site details SE Hellyhunter Buoy, Cranfield Point.

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).

Species list and abundance (44 species recorded):

Biotope 1	Nemertesia ramosa P	Protula tubularia P	Macropodia rostrata P	BRYOZOA	Asterias rubens P	Dendrodoa grossularia P
PORIFERA	Lytocarpia myriophyllum P	CRUSTACEA	Cancer pagurus P	Vesicularia spinosa P	Ophiothrix fragilis P	Botryllus schlosseri P
Plocamilla coriacea P	Alcyonium digitatum P	Balanus crenatus P	MOLLUSCA	Bugulina flabellata P	Ophiocomina nigra P	Molgula manhattensis P
CNIDARIA	Virgularia mirabilis P	Astacilla longicornis P	Leptochiton asellus P	Cellaria fistulosa P	Ophiura albida P	PISCES
Corymorpha nutans P	Synarachnactis lloydii P	Pagurus bernhardus P	Calliostoma zizyphinum P	Parasmittina trispinosa P	Ophiura ophiura P	Syngnathus acus P
Halecium halecinum P	ANNELIDA	Munida rugosa P	Turbonilla (Cyrtoturbonilla) pumila P	ECHINODERMATA	Echinus esculentus P	Callionymus lyra P
Sertularella gayi P	Chaetopterus variopedatus P	Hyas coarctatus P	Antiopella cristata P	Astropecten irregularis P	TUNICATA
Kirchenpaueria pinnata P	Pomatoceros triqueter P	Inachus phalangium P	Pecten maximus P	Crossaster papposus P	Corella parallelogramma P