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Abbey Rock, Strangford Lough.

Survey number: 551 Event number: 19800702/05 Date: 1980-07-02 GPS: 54.42800,-5.58333 [ View map ]

Site Description: Boulder-flat bedrock. Sand at 9m changing to finer sand with shell and mud component from 12-19m then on to thick Modiolus level.

Species list (35 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Alcyonium digitatum	Hyas araneus	Modiolus modiolus	Solaster endeca	Ophiocomina nigra	PISCES
Cliona celata	Synarachnactis lloydii	Hyas coarctatus	Pecten maximus	Crossaster papposus	Ophiura ophiura	Scyliorhinus canicula
Halichondria sp.	Cylista elegans	Polybius depurator	Astarte sulcata	Asterias rubens	Thyone fusus	Gadus morhua
CNIDARIA	Actinothoe sphyrodeta	Carcinus maenas	Ensis sp.	Leptasterias muelleri	Thyone roscovita	Pollachius virens
Abietinaria abietina	CRUSTACEA	MOLLUSCA	Venus casina	Marthasterias glacialis	TUNICATA	Callionymus lyra
Nemertesia antennina	Pagurus sp.	Calliostoma zizyphinum	ECHINODERMATA	Ophiothrix fragilis	Clavelina lepadiformis	Pleuronectes platessa

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