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Ballycastle Bay.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850605/06 Date: 1985-06-05 GPS: 55.21967,-6.21283 [ View map ]

Site Description: Horizontal bottem with stable pebbles and large ridges of stable boulders which were interspersed between the pebbles. Some coarse sand.

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Species list (28 species recorded)

PORIFERA Nemertesia antennina Hyas coarctatus BRYOZOA Crossaster papposus TUNICATA Delesseria sanguinea
Axinella infundibuliformis Caryophyllia smithii Cancer pagurus Flustra foliacea Henricia oculata Polycarpa pomaria CHROMOPHYTA
Dysidea fragilis ANNELIDA MOLLUSCA Securiflustra securifrons Marthasterias glacialis PISCES Laminaria hyperborea
CNIDARIA Pomatoceros triqueter Calliostoma zizyphinum Parasmittina trispinosa Ophiothrix fragilis Ctenolabrus rupestris
Tubularia indivisa CRUSTACEA Pecten maximus ECHINODERMATA Ophiocomina nigra RHODOPHYTA
Abietinaria abietina Balanus crenatus Palliolum tigerinum Porania pulvillus Echinus esculentus Lithophyllum sp.
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