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Place name : Tip Reef, Strangford Lough. County : Down

Date : 2025-10-12 GPS : 54.45740,-5.57882. Depth : -20.0 to -24.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description : Fragments of dead shell on silty mud with scattered boulders with large Metridium senile. The mud had occasional Nephrops norvegicus burrows which were also being occupied by Munida rugosa and Gobius niger. Asterias rubens, Pandalus montagui and Polybius depurator were common.

Lesueurigobius friesii [00:00:14]; Goneplax rhomboides [00:00:19]; Asterias rubens [00:00:42]; Echinus esculentus [00:00:48]; Balanus balanus [00:00:51]; Metridium senile [00:00:57]; Necora puber [00:01:01]; Polybius depurator [00:01:08]; Pomatoschistus sp. [00:01:21]; Metridium senile [00:01:30]; Asterias rubens [00:01:53]; Synarachnactis lloydii [00:02:01]; Munida rugosa [00:02:06]; Cancer pagurus [00:02:39]; Suberites carnosus [00:02:43]; Ascidiella aspersa [00:02:58]; Eutrigla gurnardus [00:03:23]; Antedon bifida [00:04:16]; Pandalus montagui [00:04:22]; Mycale subclavata [00:04:37]; Polybius depurator [00:04:42]; Alcyonium digitatum [00:05:27]; Gobius niger [00:05:42]; Diplosoma listerianum [00:05:45]; Callionymus maculatus [00:06:06]; Necora puber [00:06:24]; Munida rugosa [00:07:06]; Eutrigla gurnardus [00:07:42]; Metridium senile [00:08:11]; Callionymus maculatus [00:08:40]; Nephrops norvegicus [00:08:52]; Callionymus sp. [00:10:11]; Urticina eques [00:10:35]; Carcinus maenas [00:10:38].

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