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Place name : SW of Abbey Rock, Strangford Lough. County : Down

Date : 2003-07-09 GPS : 54.42582,-5.58830. Depth : 27.4 m. [ View map ]

Site Description : Gravel & cobbles with Ophiocomina nigra and lots of hydroids.

Burrowing sea anemone Synarachnactis lloydii [00:00:05]; Sea pen Virgularia mirabilis [00:05:55]; Norwegian lobster Nephrops norvegicus [00:08:31].

Biotope 1 : Gravel & cobbles with Ophiocomina nigra and lots of hydroids. Boulders on top of coarse broken shell. Boulders covered with barnacles, ascidians and Antedon bifida.

PORIFERA
Cliona celata O
Amphilectus fucorum O
Mycale subclavata O
CNIDARIA
Halecium halecinum O
Sertularella polyzonias O
Sertularia argentea O
Kirchenpaueria pinnata O
Nemertesia antennina O
Nemertesia ramosa O
CRUSTACEA
Balanus crenatus F
Galathea strigosa O
Inachus phalangium O
Cancer pagurus O
Necora puber O
BRYOZOA
Eucratea loricata O
Electra pilosa F
Bugulina flabellata O
Scrupocellaria scruposa O
ECHINODERMATA
Antedon bifida O
Crossaster papposus O
Ophiocomina nigra O
TUNICATA
Clavelina lepadiformis F
Aplidium nordmanni R
Ascidia mentula O
PISCES
Gadus morhua O
Ctenolabrus rupestris O
Limanda limanda R
RHODOPHYTA
Cystoclonium purpureum F
Stenogramma interruptum O
CHROMOPHYTA
Dictyota dichotoma O
Desmarestia aculeata F
Saccharina latissima C

Biotope 3 : Occasional small boulder on mixed broken shell and small pebbles. Many Ophiocomina nigra and Ophiura albida. Two individual adult Modiolus in deeper water.

PORIFERA
Sycon ciliatum O
Mycale subclavata O
Suberites carnosus O
CNIDARIA
Halecium halecinum O
Sertularella gayi O
Halopteris catharina O
Nemertesia antennina F
Nemertesia ramosa F
Obelia dichotoma O
Urticina eques R
Metridium senile R
Edwardsiella carnea R
PLATYHELMINTHES
Prostheceraeus vittatus R
CRUSTACEA
Balanus crenatus F
Pagurus prideaux R
Inachus dorsettensis O
Inachus phalangium O
Macropodia rostrata O
Necora puber O
MOLLUSCA
Acanthodoris pilosa R
Antiopella cristata R
Modiolus modiolus R
Pecten maximus O
Astarte sulcata R
BRYOZOA
Alcyonidium diaphanum O
Flustra foliacea R
Cellepora pumicosa O
ECHINODERMATA
Antedon bifida F
Crossaster papposus O
Asterias rubens O
Leptasterias muelleri O
Ophiothrix fragilis F
Ophiocomina nigra O
Ophiura albida F
Echinus esculentus O
TUNICATA
Clavelina lepadiformis O
Distaplia rosea R
Morchellium argus O
Corella parallelogramma O
Ascidiella aspersa O
PISCES
Gadus morhua O

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