Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

E of Hellyhunter Buoy, Cranfield Point.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850531/02 Date: 1985-05-31 GPS: 54.00183,-5.98083 [ View map ]

Site Description: Area of igneous cobbles next to duned gravel. Cobbles dominated by Ophiothrix fragilis.

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Species list (25 species recorded)

PORIFERA Obelia sp. Chone infundibuliformis MOLLUSCA ECHINODERMATA Ophiocomina nigra Corella parallelogramma
Mycale rotalis Alcyonium digitatum CRUSTACEA Buccinum undatum Crossaster papposus Ophiopholis aculeata PISCES
CNIDARIA Synarachnactis lloydii Balanus crenatus Pecten maximus Henricia oculata Ophiura albida Callionymus lyra
Corymorpha nutans ANNELIDA Pandalus montagui BRYOZOA Asterias rubens Echinus esculentus Zeugopterus punctatus
Kirchenpaueria pinnata Harmothoe impar Pagurus bernhardus Parasmittina trispinosa Ophiothrix fragilis TUNICATA

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