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Halfway House (Ballygalley), NE Coast.

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19850915/21 Date: 1985-09-15 GPS: 54.90500,-5.87300. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: The transect site is opposite a hut on the northern side of a house, in turn to the north of the hotel, and runs across a boulder section of a mixed boulder-sand shore. It runs from an upper boulder/stone shore over a steep sandy slope which is narrow with scattered boulders, and then across a low level boulder causeway to an offshore boulder outcrop. The site is moderately exposed, dominated by patchy Fucus vesiculosus. The tide was poorer than might have been expected from the predicted tidal height.

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Species list (119 species recorded)

PORIFERA Spirorbis spirorbis Galathea squamifera Alcyonidium gelatinosum Porphyropsis coccinea Lomentaria articulata Chorda filum
Myxilla incrustans OLIGOCHAETA sp. Pisidia longicornis Flustrellidra hispida Porphyra insolita Ceramium sp. Laminaria digitata
Halichondria panicea CHELICERATA Porcellana platycheles Electra pilosa Acrochaetium secundata Ceramium shuttleworthianum Fucus serratus
CNIDARIA Nymphon gracile Cancer pagurus Callopora lineata Gelidium sp. Membranoptera alata Fucus spiralis
Haliclystus auricula Anoplodactylus virescens Necora puber Callopora rylandi Gelidium pusillum Polyneura sp. Fucus vesiculosus
Dynamena pumila CRUSTACEA Carcinus maenas Celleporella hyalina Pterocladiella capillacea Odonthalia dentata CHLOROPHYTA
Actinia equina Semibalanus balanoides MOLLUSCA Umbonula littoralis Palmaria palmata Osmundea hybrida Ulothrix flacca
ANNELIDA Stenothoe monoculoides Testudinalia testudinalis Escharoides coccinea Ahnfeltia plicata Osmundea pinnatifida Entocladia viridis
Harmothoe extenuata Hyale prevostii Patella (Patella) vulgata Cryptosula pallasiana Hildenbrandia rubra Polysiphonia sp. Tellamia contorta
Harmothoe imbricata Talitrus saltator Patella pellucida Microporella ciliata Corallina officinalis CHROMOPHYTA Blidingia minima
Ehlersia sp. Tritaeta gibbosa Lacuna (Lacuna) pallidula Celleporina hassallii Leptophytum sp. Ectocarpus fasciculatus Enteromorpha sp.
Nereis pelagica Amphithoe rubricata Lacuna (Epheria) vincta ECHINODERMATA Lithophyllum incrustans Ectocarpus siliculosus Enteromorpha prolifera
Malacoceros fuliginosus Jassa falcata Littorina (Littorina) littorea Ophiothrix fragilis Lithothamnion glaciale Pylaiella littoralis Ulva fasciata
Cirratulus cirratus Dynamene bidentata Littorina (Neritrema) mariae TUNICATA Phymatolithon lenormandii Elachista fucicola Cladophora rupestris
Cirriformia tentaculata Jaera sp. Littorina (Neritrema) neglecta Botryllus schlosseri Titanoderma pustulatum Petalonia fascia Cladophora sericea
Capitellidae sp. Jaera albifrons Onoba (Onoba) semicostata Botrylloides leachi Catenella caespitosa Ralfsia sp. Bryopsis hypnoides
Lanice conchilega Idotea baltica Nucella lapillus RHODOPHYTA Dumontia contorta Cladostephus spongiosus Bryopsis plumosa
Pomatoceros triqueter Idotea granulosa Mytilus edulis Erythrocladia irregularis Mastocarpus stellatus Sphacelaria fusca
Spirorbis sp. Pagurus bernhardus BRYOZOA Erythrotrichia carnea Plocamium cartilagineum Alaria esculenta

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