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Ringhaddy Rapids, Strangford Lough.

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19870506/21 Date: 1987-05-06 GPS: 54.44500,-5.63800. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: The transect was taken across the upper part of the rapids, where they run over boulders beside a small islet. There was evidence of the 'emergence phenomenon' in that Fucus serratus was growing in and beside the channel high in the Ascophyllum zone.

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Species list (110 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Cirratulus cirratus	Orchestia gammarellus	Turtonia minuta	Rhodothamniella floridula	Ectocarpus fasciculatus	Monostroma grevillei
Clathrina coriacea	Cirriformia tentaculata	Amphithoe rubricata	BRYOZOA	Hildenbrandia rubra	Ectocarpus siliculosus	Monostroma obscurum
Leucosolenia sp.	Arenicola marina	Jaera albifrons	Alcyonidium hirsutum	Melobesia membranacea	Pylaiella littoralis	Monostroma oxyspermum
Sycon ciliatum	Lanice conchilega	Idotea granulosa	Flustrellidra hispida	Phymatolithon lenormandii	Spongonema tomentosum	Ulothrix flacca
Grantia compressa	Fabricia sabella	Ligia oceanica	Electra pilosa	Titanoderma pustulatum	Elachista fucicola	Ulothrix subflaccida
Myxilla incrustans	Pomatoceros triqueter	Carcinus maenas	Schizoporella unicornis	Catenella caespitosa	Dictyosiphon foeniculaceus	Blidingia minima
Halichondria panicea	Spirorbis rupestris	MOLLUSCA	ECHINODERMATA	Cystoclonium purpureum	Asperococcus compressus	Enteromorpha sp.
Halisarca dujardinii	Spirorbis spirorbis	Patella (Patella) vulgata	Leptasterias muelleri	Dumontia contorta	Cladostephus spongiosus	Enteromorpha compressa
Haliclona sp.	Spirorbis tridentatus	Littorina (Littorina) littorea	TUNICATA	Furcellaria lumbricalis	Chorda filum	Enteromorpha intestinalis
Laxosuberites sp.	OLIGOCHAETA sp.	Littorina (Neritrema) mariae	Ascidia conchilega	Chondrus crispus	Laminaria saccharina	Enteromorpha prolifera
CNIDARIA	CHELICERATA	Littorina (Neritrema) neglecta	Dendrodoa grossularia	Mastocarpus stellatus	Halidrys siliquosa	Ulva fasciata
CNIDARIA sp.	Achelia longipes	Littorina (Neritrema) obtusata	PISCES	Polyides rotundus	Ascophyllum nodosum	Chaetomorpha linum
Dynamena pumila	CRUSTACEA	Rissoa interrupta	Lipophrys pholis	Ceramium sp.	Fucus ceranoides	Cladophora rupestris
Gonothyraea loveni	Verruca stroemia	Onoba (Onoba) semicostata	Pholis gunnellus	Bostrychia scorpioides	Fucus serratus	Cladophora sericea
Laomedea flexuosa	Elminius modestus	Nucella lapillus	RHODOPHYTA	Polysiphonia lanosa	Fucus spiralis	Rhizoclonium riparium
Obelia dichotoma	Semibalanus balanoides	Mytilus edulis	Erythrotrichia carnea	Polysiphonia stricta	Fucus vesiculosus
Actinia equina	Balanus crenatus	Musculus subpictus	Porphyra amethystea	Rhodomela confervoides	Pelvetia canaliculata
ANNELIDA	Apherusa jurinei	Musculus discors	Acrochaetium secundata	CHROMOPHYTA	CHLOROPHYTA

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