Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Place name : E of Taggart Island, Strangford Lough. County : Down

Date : 2003-07-08 GPS : 54.41550,-5.62418. Depth : 16.7 m. [ View map ]

Site Description : Scattered live Modiolus modiolus and broken dead shell.

Blunt gaper Mya truncata [00:00:31]; Fluted sea squirt Ascidiella aspersa [00:00:57]; Burrowing sea anemone Synarachnactis lloydii [00:02:09]; Wrinkled swimming crab Polybius corrugatus [00:04:51]; King scallop Pecten maximus [00:06:21]; Nudibranch Polycera faeroensis [00:06:46]; Common sunstar Crossaster papposus [00:11:34]; Live horse mussel Modiolus modiolus [00:11:51]; Velvet swimming crab Necora puber [00:12:46]; Live horse mussel Modiolus modiolus [00:13:32]; Wrinkled swimming crab Polybius corrugatus [00:16:38]; Bloody Henry starfish Henricia oculata [00:17:37]; Hairy hermit crab Pagurus cuanensis inside sponge Suberites pagurorum [00:20:00]; Common sea urchin Echinus esculentus [00:21:51]; Red ascidian Polysyncraton sp. [00:22:04]; Common whelk Buccinum undatum [00:22:47]; Sea squirt Polycarpa scuba [00:23:44]; Orange sponge Mycale subclavata [00:24:05]; Hydroid Sertularella polyzonias [00:24:46].