MBDP-NI: Site details The Gobbins, Island Magee.

Priority species

The Gobbins, Island Magee.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850731/03 Date: 1985-07-31 GPS: 54.79933,-5.68833 [ View map ]

Site Description: Large boulders with extensive areas of muddy coarse stone gravel. Bed/boulder edge to this. Kelp stipes much epifauna

Species list (47 species recorded):

PORIFERA
Halichondria panicea
CNIDARIA
Tubularia indivisa
Alcyonium digitatum
Urticina felina
Caryophyllia smithii
ANNELIDA
Eupolymnia nebulosa
Branchiomma bombyx
Sabella pavonina
Pomatoceros triqueter
CRUSTACEA
Balanus crenatus
MOLLUSCA
Patella pellucida
Lacuna (Epheria) vincta
Hinia (Hima) incrassata
Diaphorodoris luteocincta
Mya truncata
BRYOZOA
Crisia eburnea
Electra pilosa
Parasmittina trispinosa
ECHINODERMATA
Antedon bifida
Asterias rubens
Leptasterias muelleri
Marthasterias glacialis
Ophiura albida
Echinus esculentus
TUNICATA
Clavelina lepadiformis
Ciona intestinalis
PISCES
Pomatoschistus minutus
Thorogobius ephippiatus
RHODOPHYTA
Wildemania miniata
Bonnemaisonia asparagoides
Palmaria palmata
Lithophyllum sp.
Kallymenia reniformis
Plocamium cartilagineum
Cryptopleura ramosa
Delesseria sanguinea
Membranoptera alata
Nitophyllum punctatum
Phycodrys rubens
Brongniartella byssoides
Odonthalia dentata
CHROMOPHYTA
Dictyota dichotoma
Desmarestia aculeata
Desmarestia viridis
Laminaria hyperborea
Saccharina latissima
CHLOROPHYTA
Ulva lactuca

No biotope record.

PORIFERA
Halichondria panicea P
CNIDARIA
Tubularia indivisa P
Alcyonium digitatum P
Urticina felina P
Caryophyllia smithii P
ANNELIDA
Eupolymnia nebulosa P
Branchiomma bombyx P
Sabella pavonina P
Pomatoceros triqueter P
CRUSTACEA
Balanus crenatus P
MOLLUSCA
Patella pellucida P
Lacuna (Epheria) vincta P
Hinia (Hima) incrassata P
Diaphorodoris luteocincta P
Mya truncata P
BRYOZOA
Crisia eburnea P
Electra pilosa P
Parasmittina trispinosa P
ECHINODERMATA
Antedon bifida P
Asterias rubens P
Leptasterias muelleri P
Marthasterias glacialis P
Ophiura albida P
Echinus esculentus P
TUNICATA
Clavelina lepadiformis P
Ciona intestinalis P
PISCES
Pomatoschistus minutus P
Thorogobius ephippiatus P
RHODOPHYTA
Wildemania miniata P
Bonnemaisonia asparagoides P
Palmaria palmata P
Lithophyllum sp. P
Kallymenia reniformis P
Plocamium cartilagineum P
Cryptopleura ramosa P
Delesseria sanguinea P
Membranoptera alata P
Nitophyllum punctatum P
Phycodrys rubens P
Brongniartella byssoides P
Odonthalia dentata P
CHROMOPHYTA
Dictyota dichotoma P
Desmarestia aculeata P
Desmarestia viridis P
Laminaria hyperborea P
Saccharina latissima P
CHLOROPHYTA
Ulva lactuca P