Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Fair Head West, North Coast.

[Site list for year 1985]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19850424/21 Date: 1985-04-24 GPS: 55.22283,-6.16300. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: The location is a sandstone block scree headland, which has a large block scree covering the whole of the intertidal. The blocks are very large, and have many flat surfaces which tend to be orientated both towards and way from wave action. Overhangs are also present beneath the blocks and small boulders, and stones exist between the boulders.

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No biotope record.

PORIFERA
Grantia compressa P
Halichondria panicea P
CNIDARIA
Actinia equina P
ANNELIDA
Spirorbis spirorbis P
Spirorbis tridentatus P
CRUSTACEA
Semibalanus balanoides P
Gammarellus angulosus P
Hyale prevostii P
Hyale pontica P
Parajassa pelagica P
Idotea granulosa P
Ligia oceanica P
MOLLUSCA
Testudinalia testudinalis P
Patella ulyssiponensis P
Patella vulgata P
Patella pellucida P
Littorina (Neritrema) fabalis P
Littorina (Neritrema) neglecta P
Melarhaphe neritoides P
Mytilus edulis P
RHODOPHYTA
Bangia atropurpurea P
Porphyra umbilicalis P
Porphyra leucosticta P
Porphyra linearis P
Acrochaetium secundata P
Gelidium pusillum P
Palmaria palmata P
Rhodothamniella floridula P
Hildenbrandia rubra P
Corallina officinalis P
Phymatolithon lenormandii P
Titanoderma pustulatum P
Catenella caespitosa P
Mastocarpus stellatus P
Lomentaria articulata P
Ceramium shuttleworthianum P
Plumaria plumosa P
Membranoptera alata P
Osmundea pinnatifida P
Polysiphonia stricta P
Rhodomela confervoides P
CHROMOPHYTA
Ectocarpus siliculosus P
Hincksia hincksiae P
Laminariocolax tomentosoides P
Elachista fucicola P
Petalonia fascia P
Ralfsia sp. P
Stragularia clavata P
Cladostephus spongiosus P
Desmarestia aculeata P
Alaria esculenta P
Laminaria digitata P
Saccorhiza polyschides P
Fucus spiralis P
Himanthalia elongata P
CHLOROPHYTA
Monostroma grevillei P
Ulothrix flacca P
Ulothrix speciosa P
Pringsheimiella scutata P
Ulvella applanata P
Blidingia minima P
Ulva sp. P
Ulva intestinalis P
Ulva linza P
Ulva prolifera P
Ulva fasciata P
Chaetomorpha linum P
Cladophora rupestris P
Cladophora sericea P

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