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

Priority species

Invasive species

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.

Species list and abundance (25 species recorded):

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