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Place name : NE of Janes Rock, Strangford Lough. County : Down

Date : 2003-07-25 GPS : 54.45080,-5.60092. Depth : 19.7 m. [ View map ]

Site Description : Start bare shelly mud, later continuous live Modiolus modiolus.

Dorset spider crab Inachus dorsettensis [00:02:05]; King scallop Pecten maximus [00:02:22]; Queen scallop Aequipecten opercularis covered in red sponge Suberites ficus [00:02:46]; Queen scallop Aequipecten opercularis covered in sponge Mycale cf. contarenii [00:03:27]; Black brittle star Ophiocomina nigra [00:08:08]; fragile brittle star Ophiothrix fragilis [00:08:36]; dense brittle stars [00:11:00].

Biotope 1 : Start bare shelly mud; later live Modiolus modiolus / Chlamys varia clumps covered with large numbers of Ophiothrix fragilis / Ophiocomina nigra.

PORIFERA
Mycale sp. O
CNIDARIA
Halecium halecinum O
Alcyonium digitatum R
Urticina eques R
Cylista elegans R
CRUSTACEA
Pagurus bernhardus O
Inachus dorsettensis O
Polybius depurator O
MOLLUSCA
Modiolus modiolus C
Pecten maximus O
Aequipecten opercularis O
Mimachlamys varia O
BRYOZOA
Scrupocellaria scruposa O
ECHINODERMATA
Antedon bifida C
Asterias rubens R
Ophiothrix fragilis A
Ophiocomina nigra C
TUNICATA
Ascidiella aspersa F
PISCES
Pomatoschistus pictus O

Biotope 2 : Continuous live Modiolus modiolus clumps with dense Ophiothrix fragilis, leading same but without Ophiothrix. No species list supplied. Sublittoral mussel beds (on sublittoral sediment)

MOLLUSCA
Modiolus modiolus P
ECHINODERMATA
Ophiothrix fragilis P

Biotope 3 :

PORIFERA
Raspailia ramosa R
Cliona celata R
Hymedesmia brondstedi P
Mycale sp. R
Suberites carnosus O
Suberites ficus O
ANNELIDA
Terebellidae sp. R
CRUSTACEA
Pagurus bernhardus R
Inachus dorsettensis O
Macropodia rostrata R
Polybius depurator C
MOLLUSCA
Calliostoma zizyphinum R
Buccinum undatum R
Pecten maximus O
Aequipecten opercularis O
ECHINODERMATA
Antedon bifida O
Crossaster papposus O
Henricia oculata R
Asterias rubens O
Echinus esculentus R
Thyone roscovita R
TUNICATA
Ascidiella aspersa O
PISCES
Pomatoschistus pictus R

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