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Limestone Rock, Strangford Lough.

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19860711/22 Date: 1986-07-11 GPS: 54.42000,-5.60400. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: The transect was taken across an Ascophyllum and Fucus vesiculosus dominated boulder and pebble shore on the eastern side of the southern face of Limestone Rock. There was a good exposure of laminarians on the sampling date. The island is completely submerged at high tide which means that the two higher zones usually present on a Strangford boulder shore are missing.

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Species list (163 species recorded)

PORIFERA	ANNELIDA	Dexamine thea	Musculus subpictus	Microporella ciliata	Corallina officinalis	Chorda filum
Clathrina coriacea	Harmothoe extenuata	Tritaeta gibbosa	Musculus discors	Cellepora pumicosa	Lithophyllum orbiculatum	Laminaria hyperborea
Leucosolenia sp.	Harmothoe imbricata	Amphithoe rubricata	Anomia ephippium	Celleporina hassallii	Lithothamnion glaciale	Laminaria saccharina
Sycon ciliatum	Harmothoe impar	Jaera albifrons	Venerupis corrugata	ECHINODERMATA	Melobesia membranacea	Ascophyllum nodosum
Grantia compressa	Lepidonotus squamatus	Janira maculosa	Turtonia minuta	Asterina gibbosa	Phymatolithon lenormandii	Fucus serratus
Leuconia nivea	Sthenelais boa	Pagurus bernhardus	Hiatella arctica	Leptasterias muelleri	Titanoderma pustulatum	Fucus spiralis
Myxilla incrustans	Syllidae sp.	Pisidia longicornis	BRYOZOA	Ophiothrix fragilis	Dumontia contorta	Fucus vesiculosus
Halichondria panicea	Nereis pelagica	Cancer pagurus	Crisia denticulata	Amphipholis squamata	Chondrus crispus	CHLOROPHYTA
Halisarca dujardinii	Perinereis cultrifera	Necora puber	Crisia eburnea	Psammechinus miliaris	Mastocarpus stellatus	Ulothrix flacca
CNIDARIA	Platynereis coccinea	Carcinus maenas	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Ocnus lacteus	Phyllophora pseudoceranoides	Ulothrix palusalsa
Coryne muscoides	Sabella pavonina	MOLLUSCA	Alcyonidium gelatinosum	TUNICATA	Lomentaria articulata	Tellamia sp.
Abietinaria abietina	Hydroides norvegica	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Alcyonidium hirsutum	Polyclinum aurantium	Ceramium sp.	Blidingia minima
Dynamena pumila	Pomatoceros triqueter	Testudinalia testudinalis	Alcyonidium mytili	Sidnyum sp.	Ceramium echionotum	Enteromorpha sp.
Hydrallmania falcata	Filograna implexa	Tectura virginea	Flustrellidra hispida	Sidnyum turbinatum	Membranoptera alata	Enteromorpha clathrata
Clytia hemisphaerica	Circeis spirillum	Patella (Patella) vulgata	Scruparia chelata	Didemnum maculosum	Osmundea hybrida	Enteromorpha compressa
Laomedea flexuosa	Spirorbis spirorbis	Patella pellucida	Membranipora membranacea	Botryllus schlosseri	Osmundea pinnatifida	Enteromorpha intestinalis
Actinia equina	OLIGOCHAETA sp.	Lacuna (Lacuna) pallidula	Electra pilosa	Botrylloides leachi	Polysiphonia lanosa	Enteromorpha linza
Anemonia viridis	CHELICERATA	Lacuna (Lacuna) parva	Callopora lineata	PISCES	Polysiphonia stricta	Enteromorpha prolifera
Urticina felina	Achelia laevis	Lacuna (Epheria) vincta	Scrupocellaria reptans	Cyclopterus lumpus	Rhodomela confervoides	Ulva fasciata
NEMERTEA	Phoxichilidium femoratum	Littorina (Littorina) littorea	Scrupocellaria scruposa	RHODOPHYTA	CHROMOPHYTA	Cladophora albida
NEMERTEA sp.	CRUSTACEA	Littorina (Neritrema) mariae	Celleporella hyalina	Bangia atropurpurea	Ectocarpus fasciculatus	Cladophora rupestris
Lineus longissimus	Verruca stroemia	Littorina (Neritrema) neglecta	Umbonula littoralis	Porphyra insolita	Hincksia sp.	Cladophora sericea
ENTOPROCTA	Semibalanus balanoides	Littorina (Neritrema) obtusata	Escharoides coccinea	Rhodochorton purpureum	Pylaiella littoralis	Rhizoclonium riparium
Pedicellina cernua	Balanus crenatus	Onoba (Onoba) semicostata	Cryptosula pallasiana	Palmaria palmata	Elachista fucicola
SIPUNCULA	Apherusa jurinei	Nucella lapillus	Schizoporella unicornis	Rhodothamniella floridula	Isthmoplea sphaerophora
Nephasoma (Nephasoma) minutum	Lysianassa ceratina	Buccinum undatum	Phaeostachys spinifera	Hildenbrandia rubra	Cladostephus spongiosus

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