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Place name : Outer Lee's Wreck, Strangford Lough. County : Down

Date : 2025-07-05 GPS : 54.38919,-5.57297. Depth : -8.0 to -12.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description : Outer section of Lee's Wreck. Circalittoral rock/hard substrata, mixed seabed of stones, boulders and gravel, sheltered with strong tidal streams.

Spiny starfish, Marthasterias glacialis, [00:00:30]; Antenna hydroids, Nemertesia ramosa & Nemertesia anteninna, [000:01:04]; White plumose anemones, Metridium senile, [00:01:31]; Sandy creeplet anemones, Epizoanthus couchii, [00:01:46]; Bloody Henry starfish, Henricia oculata, [00:03:26]; Yellow & white soft corals, Alcyonium digitatum, [00:03:55]; Hydroid, Sertularia argentea, [00:04:05]; Mermaid's glove sponge, Haliclona oculata, [00:05:15]; Bryozoan, Alcyonidium diaphanum, [00:06:16]; Boring sponge, Cliona celata [00:06:22]; Velvet swimming crab, Necora puber, [00:07:13]; Yellow hydroid, Sertularella gayi, [00:08:02]; Ballan wrasse, Labrus bergylta, [00:09:29]; Boring sponge, Cliona celata [00:10:24]; Yellow & white soft corals, Alcyonium digitatum, [00:11:12]; Yellow clubbed sea slug, Limacia clavigera, [00:13:08]

Biotope 1 : Circalittoral rock/hard subtrata, high energy, extremely tideswept.

PORIFERA
Sycon ciliatum R
Dysidea fragilis R
Cliona celata O
Microciona atrasanguinea F
Haliclona oculata R
Haliclona viscosa R
CNIDARIA
Tubularia indivisa F
Ectopleura larynx R
Coryne eximia R
Abietinaria abietina A
Sertularella gayi O
Sertularia argentea C
Kirchenpaueria pinnata R
Nemertesia antennina A
Nemertesia ramosa C
Alcyonium digitatum A
Metridium senile O
Actinothoe sphyrodeta F
Caryophyllia smithii R
ANNELIDA
Filograna implexa R
CRUSTACEA
Balanus crenatus C
MOLLUSCA
Steromphala cineraria R
Calliostoma zizyphinum O
Limacia clavigera R
Cuthonella concinna R
Eubranchus sp. R
BRYOZOA
Crisia sp. C
Alcyonidium diaphanum F
Cellaria sp. C
Parasmittina trispinosa C
ECHINODERMATA
Henricia oculata R
Echinus esculentus R
TUNICATA
Clavelina lepadiformis C
Aplidium nordmanni O
Didemnidae sp. F
Diplosoma sp. P
PISCES
Ctenolabrus rupestris F
Labrus bergylta R

Biotope 2 : Circalittoral mixed sediment.

CNIDARIA
Halecium halecinum R
Abietinaria abietina O
Hydrallmania falcata F
Sertularella gayi A
Rhizocaulus verticillatus O
Alcyonium digitatum F
Epizoanthus couchii O
Actinothoe sphyrodeta O
ANNELIDA
Terebellidae sp. R
CRUSTACEA
Necora puber O
BRYOZOA
Crisia denticulata C
Plagioecia patina R
Alcyonidium diaphanum F
Electra pilosa O
ECHINODERMATA
Henricia oculata R
Asterias rubens R
Marthasterias glacialis R
Echinus esculentus O
TUNICATA
Aplidium punctum R
Didemnum maculosum O
PISCES
Ctenolabrus rupestris O
Pomatoschistus sp. R
RHODOPHYTA
Stenogramma interruptum A
Plocamium lyngbyanum C
Heterosiphonia plumosa C
Odonthalia dentata R
CHROMOPHYTA
Dictyota dichotoma R
Desmarestia aculeata R
CHLOROPHYTA
Ulva sp. R

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