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900m N of Curran Strand, Skerries, Portrush.

Survey number: 553 Event number: 19790702/01 Date: 1979-07-02 GPS: 55.21600,-6.62533 [ View map ]

Site Description: Drift dive 55 13. 00'N 6 38. 00'W to 55 12. 91'N 6 37. 70'W. Same place as 790619/07. Coarse shells mostly intact Modiolus or Glycymeris.

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Species list (16 species recorded)

PORIFERA Cylista elegans Atelecyclus rotundatus Glycymeris glycymeris Crossaster papposus PISCES
Suberites carnosus CRUSTACEA Cancer pagurus Modiolus modiolus Asterias rubens Reinhardtius hippoglossoides
CNIDARIA Pagurus bernhardus MOLLUSCA Polititapes rhomboides Echinus esculentus
Urticina felina Macropodia rostrata Buccinum undatum ECHINODERMATA Thyone fusus

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