MBDP-NI: Zara Shoal, Strangford Lough

Place name : Zara Shoal, Strangford Lough. County : Down

Date : 2025-07-05 GPS : 54.37885,-5.56285. Depth : -10.0 to -15.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description : Mixed sediment of cobbles, gravel, dead shells and shelly gravel with foliose red algae.

Red algae, Stenogramma interruptum, [00:00:39]; Common starfish, Asterias rubens, [00:01:31]; Brown crab, Cancer pagurus [00:01:59]; Common sunstar Crossaster papposus, [00:02:30]; Harbour crab, Polybius depurator [00:02:51]; Otter shell siphons, Lutraria sp. [00:03:11]; Bivalve, Venus casina, [00:03:55]; Velvet swimming crabs, Necora puber [00:04:18]; Hornwrack, Flustra foliacea, [00:04:53]; Curled octopus, Eledone cirrhosa, [00:07:31]; Eyelash weed, Calliblepharis cilata, [00:09:02]

Species list (36 species recorded):

Biotope 1 : Circalittoral mixed sediment.

CNIDARIA
Abietinaria abietina R
Hydrallmania falcata R
Alcyonium digitatum R
Synarachnactis lloydii R
ANNELIDA
Chaetopterus sp. R
Lanice conchilega R
CRUSTACEA
Cancer pagurus R
Polybius depurator R
Necora puber R
MOLLUSCA
Lutraria sp. O
Eledone cirrhosa R
BRYOZOA
Crisia denticulata O
Alcyonidium diaphanum R
Electra pilosa F
Flustra foliacea O
ECHINODERMATA
Crossaster papposus R
Henricia oculata R
Asterias rubens R
Echinus esculentus O
TUNICATA
Morchellium argus R
RHODOPHYTA
Calliblepharis ciliata F
Stenogramma interruptum A
Plocamium lyngbyanum O
Heterosiphonia plumosa C
Acrosorium venulosum O
Cryptopleura ramosa O
Delesseria sanguinea R
Nitophyllum punctatum R
Phycodrys rubens O
Odonthalia dentata R
CHROMOPHYTA
Dictyota dichotoma F
Desmarestia viridis O
Laminaria hyperborea O
Saccharina latissima R
Ascophyllum nodosum R
Fucus vesiculosus R

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