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Neil's Reef, Strangford Lough.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19820520/01 Date: 1982-05-20 GPS: 54.40283,-5.61067. Depth: -20.0 to -21.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Ophiothrix generally everywhere; hydroids and sponges on the boulders. One Echinus.

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Species list (42 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Mycale rotalis	Pagurus prideaux	Acanthodoris pilosa	Scrupocellaria scruposa	Echinus esculentus	Phycodrys rubens
Sycon ciliatum	CNIDARIA	Galathea intermedia	Polycera faeroensis	Cellaria sp.	TUNICATA	Polysiphonia stricta
Cliona celata	Halecium muricatum	Pisidia longicornis	BRYOZOA	ECHINODERMATA	Ciona intestinalis
Stelligera montagui	Sertularia argentea	Hyas coarctatus	Crisia denticulata	Crossaster papposus	Corella parallelogramma
Suberites carnosus	Kirchenpaueria pinnata	Eurynome spinosa	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Leptasterias muelleri	Ascidia mentula
Suberites ficus	Nemertesia ramosa	Polybius depurator	Eucratea loricata	Ophiothrix fragilis	RHODOPHYTA
Tethya citrina	Calliactis palliata	MOLLUSCA	Bugula avicularia	Ophiocomina nigra	Lithophyllum sp.
Amphilectus fucorum	CRUSTACEA	Steromphala cineraria	Bicellariella ciliata	Ophiopholis aculeata	Plocamium cartilagineum