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

Date : 2024-09-08 GPS : 54.39040,-5.57894. Depth : -15.0 to -30.0 m. [ View map ]

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

Pink volcano sponge Haliclona viscosa [00:00:59]; Sponge Haliclona cinerea [00:01:25]; Lobster Homarus gammarus [00:02:09]; Barnacles feeding Balanus crenatus [00:04:15]; Finger bryozoan Alcyonidium diaphanum [00:05:02]; Bloody Henry Starfish Henricia oculata [00:05:25]; Soft coral, Dead man's fingers Alcyonium digitatum [00:05:39]; Antenna hydroid Nemertesia antennina [00:06:02]; Brown crab Cancer pagurus [00:06:40]; Common sunstar Crossaster papposus [00:07:03]; Elephant hide sponge Pachymatisma johnstonia [00:07:33]; Hydroid Sertularia argentea [00:08:05]; Small-spotted catshark Scyliorhinus canicula [00:08:30]; Hydroid Amphisbetia operculata [00:09:37]; Hyrdoid Plumularia setacea [00:09:48]; Barnacle scars Balanus crenatus [00:11:00]; Yellow boring sponge Cliona celata [00:11:12].

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