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

Date : 2003-08-13 GPS : 54.44607,-5.60062. Depth : 26.8 m. [ View map ]

Site Description : Dead Maerl gravel with Laminarians in shallow water, then covered with whole dead Modiolus shell

Biotope 1 : Dead maerl gravel with laminarians in shallow water, then covered with whole dead Modiolus shell on mud.

CNIDARIA
Obelia geniculata F
CRUSTACEA
Polybius depurator O
ECHINODERMATA
Antedon bifida O
Crossaster papposus O
Ophiocomina nigra O
Ophiura albida F
Echinus esculentus O
Thyone roscovita O
TUNICATA
Ascidiella aspersa O
PISCES
Pomatoschistus pictus O
RHODOPHYTA
Phycodrys rubens O
CHROMOPHYTA
Cutleria multifida O
Desmarestia aculeata O
Desmarestia ligulata O
Laminaria hyperborea O
Saccharina latissima O
CHLOROPHYTA
Ulva sp. O

Biotope 2 : Substrate covered with whole dead Modiolus shell. Highly abundant porcelain crabs amongst shell. Some areas of bare mud with small shell fragments, approx. 1 m wide. Circalittoral mixed sediment.

PORIFERA
Myxilla rosacea O
CNIDARIA
Anemonia viridis R
Urticina eques O
PLATYHELMINTHES
Prostheceraeus vittatus R
CRUSTACEA
Pandalus montagui O
Pagurus bernhardus O
Galathea intermedia R
Pisidia longicornis A
Inachus dorsettensis O
Macropodia rostrata R
Cancer pagurus O
Polybius corrugatus O
Polybius depurator O
Necora puber O
MOLLUSCA
Modiolus modiolus R
Ostrea edulis O
Pecten maximus O
BRYOZOA
Alcyonidium diaphanum O
ECHINODERMATA
Antedon bifida O
Crossaster papposus O
Henricia oculata O
Asterias rubens O
Leptasterias muelleri O
Ophiothrix fragilis O
Ophiocomina nigra O
Echinus esculentus O
Thyone roscovita O
TUNICATA
Clavelina lepadiformis R
Corella parallelogramma R
Ascidiella aspersa O
PISCES
Diplecogaster bimaculata R
Pomatoschistus pictus O

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