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Ballycastle Bay.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850606/04 Date: 1985-06-06 GPS: 55.21417,-6.21083 [ View map ]

Site Description: Boulders and cobbles on firm sand on firm bed of embedded pebble. Many boulders and cobbles with kelp plants but rounded bottoms.

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Species list (41 species recorded)

PORIFERA Sabella pavonina BRYOZOA TUNICATA RHODOPHYTA Ptilota gunneri Halopteris filicina
Cliona celata Pomatoceros triqueter Alcyonidium diaphanum Polyclinum aurantium Lithophyllum sp. Heterosiphonia plumosa Dictyota dichotoma
Hemimycale columella CRUSTACEA Membranipora membranacea Sidnyum turbinatum Calliblepharis ciliata Delesseria sanguinea Laminaria hyperborea
CNIDARIA Galathea squamifera Parasmittina trispinosa Didemnum sp. Metacallophyllis laciniata Phycodrys rubens
Diphasia rosacea Pisidia longicornis ECHINODERMATA Corella parallelogramma Plocamium cartilagineum Brongniartella byssoides
Obelia geniculata MOLLUSCA Henricia oculata Ascidia mentula Lomentaria clavellosa Odonthalia dentata
Caryophyllia smithii Diodora graeca Leptasterias muelleri Polycarpa pomaria Lomentaria orcadensis CHROMOPHYTA
ANNELIDA Steromphala cineraria Echinus esculentus Botryllus schlosseri Halurus flosculosus Cutleria

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