Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

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