Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

E Kinbane Head, Ballycastle.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850605/05 Date: 1985-06-05 GPS: 55.22783,-6.28933 [ View map ]

Site Description: Large limeston small igneous boulders with a little sand between. Furcellaria & Nitophyllum common amongst sand.

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Species list (32 species recorded)

PORIFERA Calliostoma zizyphinum Dendrodoa grossularia Cystoclonium purpureum Plocamium cartilagineum Nitophyllum punctatum Saccorhiza polyschides
Halichondria panicea BRYOZOA Botryllus schlosseri Dilsea carnosa Halurus flosculosus Phycodrys rubens Halidrys siliquosa
CNIDARIA Crisia denticulata RHODOPHYTA Furcellaria lumbricalis Ptilota gunneri Odonthalia dentata CHLOROPHYTA
Actinia equina TUNICATA Palmaria palmata Chondrus crispus Cryptopleura ramosa CHROMOPHYTA Chaetomorpha melagonium
MOLLUSCA Polyclinum aurantium Corallina officinalis Metacallophyllis laciniata Delesseria sanguinea Laminaria hyperborea
Steromphala cineraria Didemnum maculosum Lithophyllum sp. Meredithia microphylla Membranoptera alata Laminaria saccharina

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