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Culloden Hotel, Belfast Lough.
Survey number: 555 Event number: 19860527/21 Date: 1986-05-27 GPS: 54.65683,-5.81100. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]
Site Description: The supralittoral is composed of coarse shell gravel, pebbles and scattered small boulders. It is more steeply shelving than the intertidal. The water at this site is very turbid. It is possible that the mussel bed stretches out into mud below low water. There is a narrow intertidal composed of low sandstone ridges sticking up through a layer of pebbles and shell gravel, with some boulders and patches of sand. There are several pools. There is considerable freshwater seepage on the upper shore, which is dominated by Ulva intestinalis (originally recorded as Enteromorpha intestinalis) and Littorina littorea. The mid and lower shores have a dense coverage of barnacles with increasing numbers of Mytilus from mid to lower shore. The lower shore itself is dominated by a mussel bed. Major algae: Fucus spiralis on the mid shore and Mastocarpus stellatus on the lower. The coastal backing is expensive houses. To the east of the transect site, rock outcrops become more prevalent.
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Species list (52 species recorded)
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