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NW of Slave Rock, Strangford Lough

[Site list for year 2003]

Survey number: 561 Event number: 20031016/02 Date: 2003-10-16 GPS: 54.46523,-5.58435 [ View map ]

Site Description: Continuous dead shell with Antedon bifida, then finer shell

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Biotope 1 : Continuous dead shell with Antedon bifida, then finer shell on mud. Whole dead Modiolus shell, sometimes clumped but all empty, with abundant Antedon bifida and Ophiocomina nigra. Later in dive, shells become fragments.

PORIFERA
Amphilectus fucorum O
Mycale subclavata O
CNIDARIA
Urticina eques O
Cylista elegans O
CRUSTACEA
Pandalus montagui O
Pagurus bernhardus O
Inachus dorsettensis O
Macropodia rostrata C
Cancer pagurus O
Polybius corrugatus R
Polybius depurator O
Carcinus maenas O
MOLLUSCA
Mytilus edulis R
Pecten maximus O
Aequipecten opercularis R
ECHINODERMATA
Antedon bifida C
Crossaster papposus O
Henricia oculata O
Asterias rubens C
Echinus esculentus O
TUNICATA
Ascidiella aspersa O
PISCES
Syngnathus acus R
Pholis gunnellus O
Callionymus lyra R
Pomatoschistus pictus O
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