Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

E of Taggart Is, Strangford Lough.

Survey number: 551 Event number: 19760603/01 Date: 1976-06-03 GPS: 54.41617,-5.62333 [ View map ]

Site Description: Very rich Modiolus community 3-4 clumps/sq m. Clumps covered in dense Ophiothrix. Sediment between clumps very silty.

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Species list (15 species recorded)

CRUSTACEA Cancer pagurus MOLLUSCA Aequipecten opercularis Crossaster papposus Ophiothrix fragilis
Pagurus bernhardus Polybius depurator Buccinum undatum Eledone cirrhosa Asterias rubens Ophiocomina nigra
Macropodia rostrata Carcinus maenas Modiolus modiolus ECHINODERMATA Marthasterias glacialis Echinus esculentus

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