Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Bird Island Passage, Strangford Lough.

Survey number: 551 Event number: 19800616/01 Date: 1980-06-16 GPS: 54.47633,-5.57617. Depth: -19.0 to -20.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Passage between islands. Flat sea bed covered with shells (Venerupis; Chlamys) fine muddy sand on surface and oozy mud beneath.

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Species list (59 species recorded)

PORIFERA Hymedesmia brondstedi Pherusa plumosa Pisidia longicornis Lamellaria (Lamellaria) perspicua Polititapes rhomboides Thyone fusus
Sycon ciliatum Spanioplon armaturum Amphitrite sp. Hyas araneus Buccinum undatum BRYOZOA Labidoplax media
Cliona celata Mycale macilenta Sabella pavonina Inachus dorsettensis Nucula sp. Alcyonidium diaphanum TUNICATA
Raspailia hispida Raspailia sp. Serpula vermicularis Macropodia rostrata Modiolus modiolus Bugula sp. Didemnum sp.
Polymastia boletiformis CNIDARIA CRUSTACEA Eurynome aspera Ostrea (Ostrea) edulis ECHINODERMATA Corella parallelogramma
Polymastia penicillus Obelia sp. Semibalanus balanoides Polybius depurator Pecten maximus Antedon bifida Botryllus schlosseri
Suberites carnosus Capnea sanguinea Perrierella audouiniana Carcinus maenas Aequipecten opercularis Crossaster papposus Pyura microcosmus
Suberites ficus Cylista elegans Tritaeta gibbosa MOLLUSCA Mimachlamys varia Henricia oculata
Tethya citrina Anemonactis mazeli Janira maculosa Diodora graeca Anomia ephippium Asterias rubens
Iophon hyndmani ANNELIDA Pagurus bernhardus Calliostoma zizyphinum Timoclea ovata Leptasterias muelleri

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