Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Place name : NE of Lighthouse Island, Copelands. County : Down

Date : 2024-06-29 GPS : 54.69738,-5.53236. Depth : -15.0 to -25.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description : Gravel, boulders and steeply sloping bedrock with erect bryozoans (Flustra foliacea), hydroids, Clavelina lepadiformis, and foliose red algae.

Spiny starfish (Marthasterias glacialis), [00:00:56], Soft corals (Alcyonium digitatum), [00:01:08], King scallop (Pecten maximus), [00:01:39], Hornwrack bryozoan (Flustra foliacea) with red seaweeds, [00:02:12], Hydroid (Halecium halecinum), [00:02:21], Lightbulb sea squirt (Clavelina lepadiformis), [00:02:44], Goldsinny wrasse (Ctenolabrus rupestris), [00:03:04], Sea beech (Delesseria sanguinea), [00:04:28], Branched antenna hydroid (Nemertesia ramosa), [00:05:56], Hydroid (Kirchenpaueria pinnata), [00:06:35], Bryozoan (Securiflustra securifrons), [00:06:39], Common sunstar (Crossaster papposus), [00:07:04], Pink sea squrt (Ascidia virginea), [00:07:11], Velvet swimming crab (Necora puber), [00:07:25], Antenna hydroid (Nemertesia antennina) with nudibranch spawn, [00:08:01], Hydroid (Schizotricha frutescens), [00:08:25], Greater pipefish (Syngnathus acus), [00:08:37], Mating nudibranchs (Polycera faeroensis), [00:08:58], Candy striped flatworm (Prostheceraeus vittatus), [00:09:14].

Species list and abundance (71 species recorded):

PORIFERA Obelia geniculata C Pagurus bernhardus R Coryphella lineata R Bugulina flabellata O Ophiura albida R Lomentaria clavellosa R
Leucosolenia botryoides O Alcyonium digitatum F Necora puber R Amphorina andra R Crisularia plumosa O TUNICATA Heterosiphonia plumosa C
CNIDARIA Synarachnactis lloydii O MOLLUSCA Eubranchus tricolor R Bicellariella ciliata O Clavelina lepadiformis C Acrosorium venulosum C
Halecium halecinum F Epizoanthus couchii O Euspira catena O Pecten maximus F Cellaria fistulosa O Pycnoclavella stolonialis R Cryptopleura ramosa O
Sertularella gayi R Caryophyllia smithii O Lomanotus genei R Aequipecten opercularis R PHORONIDA Aplidium nordmanni O Delesseria sanguinea C
Antennella secundaria R PLATYHELMINTHES Doto fragilis R BRYOZOA Phoronis hippocrepia R Ascidia virginea R Hypoglossum hypoglossoides R
Halopteris catharina O Prostheceraeus vittatus R Doto hystrix R Crisia denticulata F ECHINODERMATA PISCES Nitophyllum punctatum R
Kirchenpaueria pinnata F NEMERTEA Doto pinnatifida F Crisia eburnea F Antedon bifida R Syngnathus acus R Phycodrys rubens O
Nemertesia antennina F Lineus longissimus R Okenia aspersa R Alcyonidium diaphanum O Crossaster papposus R Ctenolabrus rupestris O CHROMOPHYTA
Nemertesia ramosa F CRUSTACEA Polycera faeroensis O Membranipora membranacea R Henricia oculata R RHODOPHYTA Dictyota dichotoma O
Schizotricha frutescens O Balanus crenatus F Thecacera pennigera R Flustra foliacea C Asterias rubens R Kallymenia reniformis O Laminaria hyperborea C
Aglaophenia tubulifera R Pseudoprotella phasma R Antiopella cristata R Securiflustra securifrons O Marthasterias glacialis O Plocamium lyngbyanum O Saccharina latissima C