MBDP-NI: Hadd Pole to Slave Rk Transect Site 5, Strangford Lough

Place name : Hadd Pole to Slave Rk Transect Site 5, Strangford Lough. County : Down

Date : 2003-07-22 GPS : 54.46025,-5.58423. Depth : 29.8 m. [ View map ]

Site Description : Thick dead Modiolus modiolus shell covered with a layer of silt. Occasional areas approx. 5 m wide of small coarse shell fragments. Very few intact Modiolus shells.

Queen scallop Aequipecten opercularis with encrusting sponge Mycale cf. contareni [00:01:43]; hydroid Hydrallmania falcata [00:01:53]; Greater pipefish Syngnathus acus [00:02:19]; tube worm Serpula vermicularis [00:05:57]; common sunstar Crossaster papposus [00:06:27]; Feather stars Antedon bifida [00:10:05]; Harbour crab Polybius depurator [00:10:24]; Hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus [00:11:26].

Species list (31 species recorded):

Biotope 1 : Circalittoral mixed sediment.

PORIFERA
Sycon ciliatum R
Cliona celata R
Mycale sp. O
Suberites carnosus O
CNIDARIA
Hydrallmania falcata R
Synarachnactis lloydii O
Urticina eques O
Cylista elegans O
ANNELIDA
Serpula vermicularis O
CRUSTACEA
Balanus crenatus F
Pandalus montagui O
Pagurus bernhardus O
Inachus dorsettensis O
Macropodia rostrata O
Cancer pagurus R
Polybius depurator F
MOLLUSCA
Buccinum undatum R
Pecten maximus R
Aequipecten opercularis O
BRYOZOA
Alcyonidium diaphanum O
Scrupocellaria scruposa O
Cellepora pumicosa F
ECHINODERMATA
Antedon bifida F
Crossaster papposus O
Henricia oculata R
Echinus esculentus O
Thyone fusus F
Thyone roscovita F
PISCES
Diplecogaster bimaculata O
Syngnathus acus O
Pomatoschistus pictus O

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