Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Place name : The Drop Off, Strangford Lough. County : Down

Date : 2024-09-07 GPS : 54.39040,-5.57894. Depth : -15.0 to -25.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description : Very tide-swept faunal communities; circalittoral bedrock and boulders with soft corals

Velvet swimming crab Necora puber [00:01:01]; Antenna hydroid Nemertesia antennina [00:01:27]; Spiny starfish Marthasterias glacialis [00:01:44]; Sandalled anemone Actinothoe sphyrodeta [00:02:15]; Finger bryozoan Alcyonidium diaphanum [00:02:22]; Lobster Homarus gammarus [00:02:32]; Bloody Henry starfish Henricia oculata [00:02:43]; Elehpant hide sponge Pachymatisma johnstonia [00:02:57]; Barnacles feeding [00:03:38]; Hydroid Amphisbetia operculata [00:03:45]; Nudibranch Acanthodoris pilosa and spawn on finger bryozoan Alcyonidium diaphanum [00:04:04]; Hydroid Sertularia argentea [00:04:16]; Ballan wrasse Labrus bergylta [00:04:33]; Soft coral Alcyonium digitatum [00:04:49]; Grated carrot sponge Amphilectus fucorum [00:05:06]; Yellow boring sponge Cliona celata [00:05:59]; Pink volcano sponge Haliclona viscosa [00:06:08]; Ballan wrasse Labrus bergylta and cuckoo wrasse Labrus mixtus [00:06:37]; Tompot blenny Parablennius gattorugine [00:06:42]; Male cuckoo wrasse Labrus mixtus [00:06:51]; Spiral bryozoan Crisularia plumosa [00:07:56]; Forest kelp Laminaria hyperborea [00:08:18]; Lace bryozoan Membranipora membranacea [00:08:30]; Breadcrumb sponge Halichondria panicea [00:09:26]; Sea oak Phycodrys rubens [00:09:33].