Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Place name : NW of Dunnyneil Island, Strangford Lough. County : Down

Date : 2003-07-08 GPS : 54.41288,-5.62018. Depth : 16.1 m. [ View map ]

Site Description : Boulders and cobbles on a sand/mud base with some coarse gravel, Neopentadactyla mixta. Many boulders encrusted with barnacles and hydroids, large sponges with some macroalgae.

Velvet swimming crab Necora puber [00:00:57]; Swimming crab Polybius depurator [00:04:30]; Curled octopus Eledone cirrhosa [00:04:55]; Swimming king scallop Pecten maximus [00:07:16]; Bloody Henry starfish Henricia oculata [00:08:30]; Orange sponge Mycale (Carmia) subclavata [00:09:36]; Crystal nudibranch Antiopella cristata [00:10:45];