Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

SE of Murlough Bay.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850815/05 Date: 1985-08-15 GPS: 55.20783,-6.08767 [ View map ]

Site Description: Plain of cobble and small boulders. Abundant red algae "pinhead squirt".

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Species list (68 species recorded)

PORIFERA Halisarca dujardinii Pomatoceros triqueter Securiflustra securifrons Echinus esculentus Pyura microcosmus Plocamium cartilagineum
Sycon ciliatum CNIDARIA CRUSTACEA Bicellariella ciliata TUNICATA PISCES Rhodymenia ardissonei
Stelligera montagui Halecium muricatum Pagurus bernhardus Cellaria fistulosa Pycnoclavella stolonialis Scyliorhinus canicula Heterosiphonia plumosa
Stelligera stuposa Abietinaria abietina MOLLUSCA Cellaria sinuosa Archidistoma aggregatum RHODOPHYTA Acrosorium venulosum
Polymastia boletiformis Sertularia argentea Calliostoma zizyphinum Parasmittina trispinosa Polyclinum aurantium Bonnemaisonia asparagoides Cryptopleura ramosa
Suberites carnosus Halopteris catharina Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata ECHINODERMATA Aplidium punctum Bonnemaisonia intricata Delesseria sanguinea
Iophonopsis nigricans Nemertesia antennina Antiopella cristata Crossaster papposus Didemnum sp. Lithophyllum sp.
Hemimycale columella Nemertesia ramosa BRYOZOA Henricia oculata Diplosoma listerianum Rhodophyllis divaricata
Myxilla fimbriata Plumularia setacea Crisia eburnea Leptasterias muelleri Diplosoma spongiforme Metacallophyllis laciniata
Amphilectus fucorum Aglaophenia tubulifera Vesicularia spinosa Marthasterias glacialis Corella parallelogramma Kallymenia reniformis
Halichondria bowerbanki ANNELIDA Eucratea loricata Ophiothrix fragilis Ascidia mentula Phyllophora crispa
Dysidea fragilis Chaetopterus variopedatus Flustra foliacea Ophiocomina nigra Polycarpa pomaria Schottera nicaeensis

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