Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Place name : NW of Slave Rock, Strangford Lough. County : Down

Date : 2003-10-16 GPS : 54.46523,-5.58435 [ View map ]

Site Description : Continuous dead shell with Antedon bifida, then finer shell

Species list (25 species recorded):

Biotope 1 : Continuous dead shell with Antedon bifida, then finer shell on mud. Whole dead Modiolus shell, sometimes clumped but all empty, with abundant Antedon bifida and Ophiocomina nigra. Later in dive, shells become fragments.