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Allen Rock, Maidens

Survey number: 780 Event number: 20240512/01 Date: 2024-05-12 GPS: 54.94989,-5.74162. Depth: -15.0 to -25.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Circalittoral, tide-swept boulders surrounded by shelly gravel with pink coralline crusts and Tubularia indivisa and Alcyonium digitatum.

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Species list and abundance (14 species recorded):

PORIFERA Tubularia indivisa A Aglaophenia tubulifera O Caryophyllia smithii F Parasmittina trispinosa O Echinus esculentus O RHODOPHYTA
Haliclona urceolus O Ectopleura larynx F Alcyonium digitatum C BRYOZOA ECHINODERMATA TUNICATA Delesseria sanguinea O
CNIDARIA Nemertesia antennina F Actinothoe sphyrodeta O Crisia eburnea F Marthasterias glacialis O Clavelina lepadiformis O

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