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Port na Tober, North Coast.

[Site list for year 1987]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19870524/21 Date: 1987-05-24 GPS: 55.24783,-6.48600. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: An exposed bay of block scree, boulders and small ridges situated between vertical rock headlands. The western end of the bay is very exposed block scree with red algae, barnacles and Alaria. The eastern end is less exposed with laminarians and fucoids, between boulders and on ridges, and a more abundant patellobarnacle community.

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Species list (74 species recorded):

PORIFERA
Grantia compressa
Halichondria panicea
Hymeniacidon perleve
CNIDARIA
Dynamena pumila
Actinia equina
ANNELIDA
Spirorbis tridentatus
CRUSTACEA
Chthamalus stellatus
Semibalanus balanoides
Hyale prevostii
Ligia oceanica
Carcinus maenas
MOLLUSCA
Testudinalia testudinalis
Patella vulgata
Littorina (Neritrema) neglecta
Melarhaphe neritoides
Rissoa interrupta
Nucella lapillus
Mytilus edulis
Turtonia minuta
BRYOZOA
Alcyonidium hirsutum
RHODOPHYTA
Porphyra umbilicalis
Porphyra leucosticta
Porphyra linearis
Acrochaetium secundata
Rhodochorton purpureum
Gelidium sp.
Gelidium spinosum
Palmaria palmata
Rhodothamniella floridula
Ahnfeltia plicata
Hildenbrandia rubra
Corallina officinalis
Lithophyllum incrustans
Phymatolithon lenormandii
Dumontia contorta
Furcellaria lumbricalis
Mastocarpus stellatus
Ceramium sp.
Ceramium shuttleworthianum
Ptilota gunneri
Delesseria sanguinea
Polysiphonia atlantica
Polysiphonia stricta
CHROMOPHYTA
Ectocarpus fasciculatus
Ectocarpus siliculosus
Hincksia hincksiae
Pylaiella littoralis
Spongonema tomentosum
Elachista fucicola
Litosiphon laminariae
Punctaria hiemalis
Petalonia fascia
Ralfsia sp.
Ralfsia verrucosa
Scytosiphon lomentaria
Sphacelaria fusca
Alaria esculenta
Laminaria digitata
Saccharina latissima
Fucus serratus
Fucus vesiculosus
CHLOROPHYTA
Ulothrix flacca
Ulothrix subflaccida
Ulothrix speciosa
Urospora penicilliformis
Urospora wormskioldii
Blidingia minima
Ulva sp.
Enteromorpha compressa
Ulva intestinalis
Ulva linza
Ulva prolifera
Chaetomorpha linum
Cladophora rupestris

No biotope record.

PORIFERA
Grantia compressa P
Halichondria panicea P
Hymeniacidon perleve P
CNIDARIA
Dynamena pumila P
Actinia equina P
ANNELIDA
Spirorbis tridentatus P
CRUSTACEA
Chthamalus stellatus P
Semibalanus balanoides P
Hyale prevostii P
Ligia oceanica P
Carcinus maenas P
MOLLUSCA
Testudinalia testudinalis P
Patella vulgata P
Littorina (Neritrema) neglecta P
Melarhaphe neritoides P
Rissoa interrupta P
Nucella lapillus P
Mytilus edulis P
Turtonia minuta P
BRYOZOA
Alcyonidium hirsutum P
RHODOPHYTA
Porphyra umbilicalis P
Porphyra leucosticta P
Porphyra linearis P
Acrochaetium secundata P
Rhodochorton purpureum P
Gelidium sp. P
Gelidium spinosum P
Palmaria palmata P
Rhodothamniella floridula P
Ahnfeltia plicata P
Hildenbrandia rubra P
Corallina officinalis P
Lithophyllum incrustans P
Phymatolithon lenormandii P
Dumontia contorta P
Furcellaria lumbricalis P
Mastocarpus stellatus P
Ceramium sp. P
Ceramium shuttleworthianum P
Ptilota gunneri P
Delesseria sanguinea P
Polysiphonia atlantica P
Polysiphonia stricta P
CHROMOPHYTA
Ectocarpus fasciculatus P
Ectocarpus siliculosus P
Hincksia hincksiae P
Pylaiella littoralis P
Spongonema tomentosum P
Elachista fucicola P
Litosiphon laminariae P
Punctaria hiemalis P
Petalonia fascia P
Ralfsia sp. P
Ralfsia verrucosa P
Scytosiphon lomentaria P
Sphacelaria fusca P
Alaria esculenta P
Laminaria digitata P
Saccharina latissima P
Fucus serratus P
Fucus vesiculosus P
CHLOROPHYTA
Ulothrix flacca P
Ulothrix subflaccida P
Ulothrix speciosa P
Urospora penicilliformis P
Urospora wormskioldii P
Blidingia minima P
Ulva sp. P
Enteromorpha compressa P
Ulva intestinalis P
Ulva linza P
Ulva prolifera P
Chaetomorpha linum P
Cladophora rupestris P

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