Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Place name : S of Parton Island, Strangford Lough. County : Down

Date : 2003-07-31 GPS : 54.46873,-5.62517. Depth : 12.7 m. [ View map ]

Site Description : Featureless mud at the start with parallel straight markings. Later mud with dead shell covered in a thin layer of sediment. Shells mostly Venerupis, occasional Ostrea and Modiolus. Patches of larger shells of Modiolus. In shallower water, many prawns on mud.

Species list (27 species recorded):

Biotope 1 : Circalittoral mixed sediment.