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Marlfield Bay, Strangford Lough.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19820513/01 Date: 1982-05-13 GPS: 54.40583,-5.58583. Depth: -23.0 to -24.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Sandy gravel with Ophiothrix abundant. A few dead shells.

Species list (44 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Halecium beanii	Pomatoceros triqueter	Eurynome aspera	Crisia denticulata	Asterias rubens	Corella parallelogramma
Sycon ciliatum	Halecium halecinum	Filograna implexa	Cancer pagurus	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Ophiothrix fragilis	Ascidiella aspersa
Cliona celata	Nemertesia antennina	CRUSTACEA	MOLLUSCA	Bugula sp.	Amphipholis squamata	RHODOPHYTA
Suberites carnosus	Nemertesia ramosa	Crangon crangon	Leptochiton asellus	Cellaria fistulosa	Echinus esculentus	Lithophyllum sp.
Suberites ficus	Aglaophenia tubulifera	Pagurus bernhardus	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Cellaria sinuosa	TUNICATA	CHROMOPHYTA
Mycale rotalis	Campanularia sp.	Munida rugosa	Polycera faeroensis	ECHINODERMATA	Clavelina lepadiformis	Laminaria saccharina
Halichondria bowerbanki	ANNELIDA	Inachus leptochirus	Aequipecten opercularis	Antedon bifida	Synoicum pulmonaria
CNIDARIA	Lepidonotus squamatus	Macropodia rostrata	BRYOZOA	Crossaster papposus	Ciona intestinalis