Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Priority species

Invasive species

E of Hellyhunter Buoy, Cranfield Point.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850531/01 Date: 1985-05-31 GPS: 54.00383,-6.01567. Depth: -13.0 to -14.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Plain of cobble on pebble and silty gravel with frequent limestone and igneous boulders; two areas boulder clay; no life.

Species list (59 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Mycale rotalis	Nemertesia antennina	Pagurus bernhardus	Scrupocellaria scruposa	Psammechinus miliaris	Cruoria sp.
Leucosolenia botryoides	Halichondria bowerbanki	Obelia sp.	Galathea squamifera	Parasmittina trispinosa	Echinus esculentus	Calliblepharis jubata
Sycon ciliatum	Haliclona oculata	Obelia plicata	Necora puber	ECHINODERMATA	TUNICATA	Cystoclonium purpureum
Oscarella sp.	CNIDARIA	Alcyonium digitatum	MOLLUSCA	Antedon bifida	Clavelina lepadiformis	Phyllophora crispa
Cliona celata	Halecium beanii	ANNELIDA	Tonicella marmorea	Crossaster papposus	Ciona intestinalis	Plocamium cartilagineum
Stelligera montagui	Halecium halecinum	Harmothoe impar	Hinia (Hima) incrassata	Asterias rubens	Corella parallelogramma	Phycodrys rubens
Polymastia boletiformis	Hydrallmania falcata	Pomatoceros triqueter	Hiatella arctica	Ophiothrix fragilis	Ascidia mentula	CHROMOPHYTA
Polymastia penicillus	Sertularella gayi	CRUSTACEA	BRYOZOA	Ophiocomina nigra	Dendrodoa grossularia	Dictyota dichotoma
Suberites carnosus	Halopteris catharina	Pandalus montagui	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Ophiopholis aculeata	RHODOPHYTA	CHLOROPHYTA
Tethya citrina	Kirchenpaueria pinnata	Anapagurus hyndmanni	Bicellariella ciliata	Ophiura albida	Lithophyllum sp.	Bryopsis plumosa