Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

SE Hellyhunter Rock, Cranfield Point.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850620/02 Date: 1985-06-20 GPS: 54.00383,-6.01567 [ View map ]

Site Description: Plain of cobble on pebble and silty gravel with frequent limestone and igneous boulders; two areas boulder clay; no life.

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Species list (51 species recorded)

PORIFERA Halichondria bowerbanki ANNELIDA Leptochiton asellus Antedon bifida TUNICATA Lithophyllum sp.
Leucosolenia sp. CNIDARIA Eupolymnia nebulosa Tonicella marmorea Crossaster papposus Clavelina lepadiformis Cystoclonium purpureum
Sycon ciliatum Halecium halecinum Pomatoceros triqueter Calliostoma zizyphinum Asterias rubens Diplosoma listerianum Plocamium cartilagineum
Stelligera montagui Sertularella polyzonias CRUSTACEA Talochlamys distorta Ophiothrix fragilis Ciona intestinalis Delesseria sanguinea
Raspailia ramosa Nemertesia antennina Pagurus bernhardus Pododesmus patelliformis Ophiocomina nigra Corella parallelogramma Phycodrys rubens
Polymastia boletiformis Nemertesia ramosa Pagurus cuanensis BRYOZOA Ophiopholis aculeata Ascidia mentula Brongniartella byssoides
Polymastia penicillus Obelia longissima Inachus phalangium Alcyonidium diaphanum Ophiura albida PISCES CHLOROPHYTA
Tethya citrina Obelia plicata Necora puber Scrupocellaria scruposa Psammechinus miliaris Pholis gunnellus Bryopsis plumosa
Mycale rotalis Alcyonium digitatum MOLLUSCA ECHINODERMATA Echinus esculentus RHODOPHYTA

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