MBDP-NI: Site details W Kinbane Head, Ballycastle.

Priority species

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.

Species list (44 species recorded):

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

No biotope record.

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