Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Place name : Kate's Pladdy, Strangford Lough. County : Down

Date : 2024-08-03 GPS : 54.40292,-5.58290. Depth : -12.0 to -18.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description : Circalittoral mixed sediment (shell & gravel) with cobbles and boulders, seabed was covered in Diplosoma aff. listerianum and Ascidiella aspersa was superabundant.

Sea squirts Ascidiella aspersa and Diplosoma aff. listerianum [00:00:22]; Common sea urchin Echinus esculentus [00:00:33]; Hydroids Nemertesia antennina and Halecium plumosum [00:01:16]; Velvet swimming crab Necora puber [00:01:29]; Bryozoan Alcyonidium diaphanum [00:01:39]; King scallop Pecten maximus [00:02:37]; Saddle oyster Anomia ephippium [00:03:50]; Antenna hydroid Nemertesia antennina with hydroid Plumularia alleni growing on it [00:04:07]; Yellow hydroid Antennella secundaria [00:05:10]; Branched antenna hydroid Nemertesia ramosa [00:05:32]; Harbour crab Polybius depurator [00:06:00]; Barnacle scars Balanus crenatus [00:06:10]; Spider crab Inachus phalangium [00:06:42]; Yellow boring sponge Cliona celata [00:07:05]; Common sunstar Crossaster papposus [00:07:40]; Orange sponge Mycale subclavata [00:08:10]; Sea squirt Morchellium argus [00:08:08]; Orange ascidian Polysyncraton sp. [00:08:15]; Yellow feathery hydroid Aglaophenia tubulifera [00:08:24]; Colonial sea squirt Diplosoma spongiforme [00:08:30]; Hydroid Sertularella polyzonias [00:08:38]; Hydroid Plumularia setacea [00:09:04]; Red seaweed Heterosiphonia plumosa [00:09:18]; Orange sponge Mycale subclavata [00:09:21]; Seabed litter [00:10:03]; Horseshoe worms Phoronis hippocrepia [00:10:19]; Nudibranch spawn Geitodoris planata [00:10:52]; Nudibranch Geitodoris planata [00:11:11]; Bryozoan Membranipora membranacea and Electra pilosa [00:11:34]; Brown seaweed Desmarestia aculeata with bryozoan Scrupocellaria sp. [00:11:46].