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].
Biotope 1 : Very tide-swept faunal communities; circalittoral bedrock and boulders with soft corals.
Biotope 2 : Laminaria hyperborea£ with dense foliose red seaweeds on exposed infralittoral rock.