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Place name : Nr Strife Rk (S) Drift NW, Strangford Lough. County : Down

Date : 2003-07-30 GPS : 54.44153,-5.60758. Depth : 17.8 m. [ View map ]

Site Description : Nephrops norvegicus bed with Sagartia lacerata (previously known as Sagartiogeton laceratus). Muddy sediment with mainly small bits of dead shell. Some whole shells of Pecten maximus. Virgularia mirabilis present occasionally, Other areas of mostly featureless very soft mud with many Nephrops norvegicus burrows / Sagartia lacerata. Some empty turritellid shells in mud. Some scar marks.

Angular crab Goneplax rhomboides [00:00:08]; sea anemone Sagartia lacerata [00:00:28]; sea pen Virgularia mirabilis [00:02:30]; Harbor crab Polybius depurator [00:03:20]; Grey gurnard Eutrigla gurnardus [00:04:22]; burrowing anemone Synarachnactis lloydii [00:05:12]; Angular crab Goneplax rhomboides [00:05:31]; shrimp Crangon crangon [00:06:22]; Two-spotted clingfish Diplecogaster bimaculata [00:08:35].

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