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Black Head (east), NE Coast.

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19860907/21 Date: 1986-09-07 GPS: 54.76883,-5.68900. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: The transect lies diagonally across the intertidal to the south of the only sea stack along this stretch of coastline. The coastal backing is low cliff and the transect site itself is composed of an upper flat igneous rock platform, dropping steeply away to a lower shore of large and medium boulders and small igneous rock outcrops. This is an exposed patellobarnacle dominated shore.

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Species list (135 species recorded)

PORIFERA Semibalanus balanoides Littorina (Neritrema) mariae Celleporella hyalina Dilsea carnosa Polysiphonia lanosa Fucus serratus
Leucosolenia complicata Stenothoe monoculoides Littorina (Neritrema) neglecta ECHINODERMATA Dumontia contorta Polysiphonia stricta Fucus spiralis
Grantia compressa Hyale prevostii Littorina (Neritrema) obtusata Ophiothrix fragilis Furcellaria lumbricalis Pterosiphonia complanata Fucus vesiculosus
Myxilla incrustans Hyale pontica Melarhaphe neritoides RHODOPHYTA Chondrus crispus CHROMOPHYTA Pelvetia canaliculata
Halichondria panicea Amphithoe rubricata Skeneopsis planorbis Porphyra insolita Erythrodermis traillii Acinetospora crinita Himanthalia elongata
CNIDARIA Jassa falcata Rissoa interrupta Porphyra leucosticta Mastocarpus stellatus Ectocarpus siliculosus CHLOROPHYTA
Clava cornea Dynamene bidentata Onoba (Onoba) semicostata Audouinella sp. Gracilaria gracilis Feldmannia sp. Rosenvingiella polyrhiza
Dynamena pumila Idotea granulosa Nucella lapillus Rhodochorton purpureum Plocamium cartilagineum Pylaiella littoralis Chlorofilum ephemerum
Obelia geniculata Ligia oceanica Mytilidae sp. Palmaria palmata Lomentaria articulata Chilionema reptans Entocladia flustrae
Actinia equina Galathea dispersa Mytilus edulis Rhodothamniella floridula Callithamnion tetricum Petalonia fascia Entocladia viridis
Urticina felina Carcinus maenas Musculus discors Ahnfeltia plicata Ceramium sp. Stragularia clavata Ulvella applanata
NEMERTEA MOLLUSCA Turtonia minuta Hildenbrandia rubra Ceramium shuttleworthianum Isthmoplea sphaerophora Blidingia minima
NEMERTEA sp. Tricolia (Tricolia) pullus BRYOZOA Corallina officinalis Plumaria plumosa Cladostephus spongiosus Enteromorpha sp.
ANNELIDA Testudinalia testudinalis Crisidia cornuta Leptophytum sp. Heterosiphonia plumosa Sphacelaria radicans Enteromorpha intestinalis
Eulalia sp. Patella (Patella) ulyssiponensis Crisia denticulata Lithophyllum incrustans Cryptopleura ramosa Dictyota dichotoma Enteromorpha linza
Eulalia viridis Patella (Patella) vulgata Alcyonidium gelatinosum Lithophyllum orbiculatum Membranoptera alata Desmarestia aculeata Ulva fasciata
Nereis pelagica Patella pellucida Alcyonidium hirsutum Lithothamnion glaciale Odonthalia dentata Alaria esculenta Chaetomorpha linum
Pomatoceros triqueter Lacuna (Lacuna) pallidula Flustrellidra hispida Melobesia membranacea Osmundea hybrida Laminaria digitata Cladophora rupestris
Spirorbis spirorbis Lacuna (Lacuna) parva Electra pilosa Phymatolithon lenormandii Osmundea pinnatifida Laminaria hyperborea Cladophora sericea
OLIGOCHAETA sp. Lacuna (Epheria) vincta Callopora lineata Titanoderma pustulatum Polysiphonia sp. Laminaria saccharina Rhizoclonium riparium
CRUSTACEA Littorina (Littorina) littorea Scrupocellaria scruposa Cystoclonium purpureum Polysiphonia atlantica Ascophyllum nodosum

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