BioMar survey of Kilkieran Bay and the Aran Islands area, Co. Galway, August 1993 |
Dive number: 930824/02 Date: 24 August 1993
Site Description: The site was a deep depression in a shallow channel in the inner part of a sheltered fiard. It had steep mud slopes, and to the north-east a bedrock wall with boulders at the top. Habitat 1: A mud slope extended from 4 m to 14 m BCD with abundant Virgularia mirabilis and frequent Sagartiogeton undatus. Habitat 2: Silty boulders and bedrock extended from 6 - 17 m BCD and were covered by thinly encrusting sponges and Ascidia mentula. The sponges included Mycale contarenii, M. rotalis, Dysidea fragilis and Eurypon species. Habitat 3: A mud slope extended from 14 - 32 m BCD and had common Pachycerianthus multiplicatus.
Map site - Google maps: 53.346,-9.65017
Subsite: Mud slope with Pachycerianthus multiplicatus. details
Subsite Description: Mud slope extended from 14 to 32 m BCD and had common Pachycerianthus multiplicatus.
Subsite: Mud slope with Virgularia mirabilis. details
Subsite Description: The mud slope extended from 4 to 14 m BCD with abundant Virgularia mirabilis and frequent Sagartiogeton undatus.
Subsite: Silty circalittoral bedrock with sponges. details
Subsite Description: Silty boulders and bedrock extended from 6 to 17 m BCD and were covered by thinly encrusting sponges and Ascidia mentula. The sponges included Mycale contarenii, M. rotalis, Dysidea fragilis and Eurypon species.
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