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Ringboy (boulders), SE Coast.

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19850531/21 Date: 1985-05-31 GPS: 54.24700,-5.70200. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: The shore is a wide expanse of small medium and the occasional large boulder on the lower shore. Some small rock outcrops occur in the middle and lower shores which are used as a seal haul out. The shore is generally sheltered with the resulting zones being fucoid/Ascophyllum, and these are very wide. Laminaria is present at low water and some patellobarnacle on the outcrops.

Species list (182 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Nereis pelagica	Idotea granulosa	Berthella plumula	Sidnyum turbinatum	Dumontia contorta	Chilionema reptans
Clathrina coriacea	Chaetopteridae sp.	Ligia oceanica	Doris pseudoargus	Didemnum sp.	Furcellaria lumbricalis	Petalonia fascia
Leucosolenia variabilis	Cirratulus cirratus	Pagurus bernhardus	Mytilidae sp.	Ascidia mentula	Chondrus crispus	Ralfsia sp.
Grantia compressa	Cirriformia tentaculata	Galathea squamifera	Mytilus edulis	Dendrodoa grossularia	Mastocarpus stellatus	Stragularia clavata
Myxilla incrustans	Arenicola marina	Pisidia longicornis	Musculus subpictus	Botryllus schlosseri	Phyllophora pseudoceranoides	Leathesia difformis
Halichondria panicea	Nicomache personata	Porcellana platycheles	Anomia ephippium	Botrylloides leachi	Plocamium cartilagineum	Sphacelaria fusca
Halisarca dujardinii	Sabellaria alveolata	Hyas araneus	Venerupis corrugata	PISCES	Ceramium sp.	Dictyota dichotoma
CNIDARIA	Melinna cristata	Inachus phalangium	Hiatella arctica	Spinachia spinachia	Plumaria plumosa	Desmarestia aculeata
Tubularia indivisa	Eupolymnia nebulosa	Macropodia tenuirostris	BRYOZOA	Lipophrys pholis	Ptilota gunneri	Laminaria digitata
Dynamena pumila	Lanice conchilega	Cancer pagurus	Alcyonidium gelatinosum	RHODOPHYTA	Cryptopleura ramosa	Laminaria saccharina
Obelia geniculata	Pomatoceros triqueter	Necora puber	Alcyonidium hirsutum	Erythrocladia irregularis	Delesseria sanguinea	Ascophyllum nodosum
Actinia equina	Spirorbis spirorbis	Carcinus maenas	Flustrellidra hispida	Acrochaetium microscopicum	Membranoptera alata	Fucus serratus
Urticina felina	Spirorbis tridentatus	MOLLUSCA	Membranipora membranacea	Acrochaetium secundata	Phycodrys rubens	Fucus spiralis
NEMERTEA	OLIGOCHAETA sp.	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Electra pilosa	Pterocladiella capillacea	Odonthalia dentata	Fucus vesiculosus
Lineus longissimus	CRUSTACEA	Testudinalia testudinalis	Callopora lineata	Palmaria palmata	Osmundea hybrida	Pelvetia canaliculata
Micrura sp.	Verruca stroemia	Patella (Patella) ulyssiponensis	Celleporella hyalina	Meiodiscus concrescens	Osmundea pinnatifida	CHLOROPHYTA
ANNELIDA	Semibalanus balanoides	Patella (Patella) vulgata	Escharoides coccinea	Rhodothamniella floridula	Polysiphonia sp.	Spongomorpha aeruginosa
Harmothoe extenuata	Balanus perforatus	Patella pellucida	Escharella immersa	Ahnfeltia plicata	Polysiphonia atlantica	Tellamia contorta
Harmothoe imbricata	AMPHIPODA sp.	Lacuna (Lacuna) parva	ECHINODERMATA	Hildenbrandia rubra	Polysiphonia lanosa	Enteromorpha sp.
Lepidonotus clava	Apherusa jurinei	Lacuna (Epheria) vincta	Asterias rubens	Corallina officinalis	Polysiphonia stricta	Enteromorpha compressa
Lepidonotus squamatus	Hyale prevostii	Littorina (Littorina) littorea	Marthasterias glacialis	Lithothamnion glaciale	Rhodomela confervoides	Enteromorpha intestinalis
Pholoe sp.	Orchestia mediterranea	Littorina (Neritrema) mariae	Ophiothrix fragilis	Melobesia membranacea	CHROMOPHYTA	Ulva fasciata
Sthenelais boa	Dexamine thea	Littorina (Neritrema) neglecta	Ophiocomina nigra	Phymatolithon lenormandii	Ectocarpus siliculosus	Cladophora albida
Phyllodocidae sp.	Tritaeta gibbosa	Littorina (Neritrema) obtusata	Amphipholis squamata	Titanoderma pustulatum	Hincksia sp.	Cladophora rupestris
Eulalia splendens	Corophium sextonae	Rissoa interrupta	Psammechinus miliaris	Catenella caespitosa	Pylaiella littoralis	Cladophora sericea
Typosyllis hyalina	Caprella acanthifera	Onoba (Onoba) semicostata	Ocnus lacteus	Cruoria pellita	Spongonema tomentosum	Rhizoclonium riparium
Odontosyllis ctenostoma	Caprella linearis	Nucella lapillus	TUNICATA	Cystoclonium purpureum	Elachista fucicola	Bryopsis plumosa
Neanthes virens	Jaera albifrons	Buccinum undatum	Polyclinum aurantium	Dilsea carnosa	Dictyosiphon foeniculaceus

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