Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Healthy horse mussel bed (Modiolus modiolus) with variegated scallop (Mimachlamys varia), sea cucumbers (Thyone roscovita), brittlestars (Ophiothrix fragilis and Ophiocomina nigra) and feather stars (Antedon bifida); [00:01:34] queen scallop (Aequipecten opercularis) covered in the sponge Mycale cf. contareni and sea cucumbers (Thyone roscovita); [00:02:05] common starfish (Asterias rubens); [00:02:35] wrinkled swimming crab (Liocarcinus corrugatus) and sea cucumber (Thyone roscovita); [00:04:09] queen scallop (Aequipecten opercularis) with the encrusting sponge (Suberites ficus); [00:04:48] common sunstar (Crossaster papposus) with the queen scallop (Aequipecten opercularis); [00:11:30] large clump of variegated scallop (Mimachlamys varia) with brittlestars (Ophiothrix fragilis) and feather stars (Antedon bifida); [00:11:42] edible crab (Cancer pagurus); [00:12:01] the sponge Myxilla incrustans and the white variety of the painted topshell (Calliostoma ziziphynum); [00:12:52] horseman anemone (Urticina eques); [00:13:25] the sponge Mycale rotalis growing on the ascidian Ascidia mentula; [00:19:13] large clump of variegated scallop (Mimachlamys varia) with the brittlestar (Ophiothrix fragilis); [00:19:30] clump of horse mussels (Modiolus modiolus) and brittlestars (Ophiothrix fragilis and Ophiocomina nigra); [00:20:37] close up of horse mussel (Modiolus modiolus), blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) and native oyster (Ostrea edulis); [00:21:59] soft coral (Alcyonium digitatum) and the boring sponge (Cliona celata); [00:23:04] bloody henry starfish (Henricia oculata), the sponges Myxilla cf. rosacea and Mycale rotalis and the bryozoan Scrupocellaria sp.

Species list and abundance (42 species recorded):

PORIFERA	CNIDARIA	Serpula vermicularis F	MOLLUSCA	Aequipecten opercularis F	Asterias rubens O	Ciona intestinalis R
Oscarella sp. R	Sertularella polyzonias O	CRUSTACEA	Calliostoma zizyphinum O	Mimachlamys varia A	Leptasterias muelleri O	Ascidiella aspersa F
Tethya citrina O	Kirchenpaueria pinnata O	Pagurus bernhardus O	Ocenebra erinacea O	BRYOZOA	Ophiothrix fragilis C
Mycale sp. O	Obelia dichotoma C	Inachus dorsettensis O	Buccinum undatum O	Alcyonidium diaphanum O	Ophiocomina nigra F
Mycale subclavata F	Alcyonium digitatum O	Inachus phalangium O	Mytilus edulis O	ECHINODERMATA	Echinus esculentus O
Myxilla sp. O	Urticina eques O	Macropodia rostrata O	Modiolus modiolus A	Antedon bifida C	Thyone fusus F
Myxilla incrustans O	ANNELIDA	Cancer pagurus F	Ostrea (Ostrea) edulis O	Crossaster papposus O	Thyone roscovita C
Suberites ficus O	Terebellidae sp. O	Polybius corrugatus F	Pecten maximus O	Henricia oculata O	TUNICATA