Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

W Kinbane Head, Ballycastle.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850605/01 Date: 1985-06-05 GPS: 55.23400,-6.29383 [ View map ]

Site Description: Mostly mobile pebbles with small boulders covered in Flustra foliacea.

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Species list (44 species recorded)

PORIFERA Haliclona viscosa Stomphia coccinea Coryphella browni ECHINODERMATA Didemnum sp. Plocamium cartilagineum
Polymastia boletiformis CNIDARIA Caryophyllia smithii Palliolum tigerinum Crossaster papposus Diplosoma listerianum Delesseria sanguinea
Hemimycale columella Tubularia indivisa CRUSTACEA BRYOZOA Henricia oculata Corella parallelogramma CHROMOPHYTA
Myxilla incrustans Halecium halecinum Balanus crenatus Crisia denticulata Asterias rubens Ascidia mentula Dictyota dichotoma
Amphilectus fucorum Hydrallmania falcata Inachus phalangium Alcyonidium diaphanum TUNICATA Ascidia virginea Laminaria hyperborea
Mycale rotalis Sertularella gayi MOLLUSCA Flustra foliacea Distaplia rosea Botryllus schlosseri
Axinella infundibuliformis Sertularia argentea Polinices montagui Securiflustra securifrons Polyclinum aurantium RHODOPHYTA
Halichondria bowerbanki Nemertesia ramosa Polycera faeroensis Parasmittina trispinosa Aplidium punctum Metacallophyllis laciniata

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