BioMar survey of Youghal Bay area, Co. Cork and Co. Waterford, September 1993  

SE of Ram Head (outer), Youghal Bay.

Dive number: 930925/01 Date: 25 September 1993

Site Description: The site was located on the open south coast, to the south-east of a headland. The seabed consisted of a horizontal plain of rock ridges, 0.5 to 1 m high, covered with Ophiothrix fragilis.

Map site - Google maps: 51.93817,-7.70233

Subsite: Lower circalittoral bedrock with dense Ophiothrix fragilis beds. details

Subsite Description: Ridges of sandstone bedrock with small boulders, covered in dense Ophiothrix fragilis but the tops of some ridges had no Ophiothrix, but Parasmittina trispinosa, Metridium senile, Alcyonium digitatum and Abietinaria abietina instead.

Photograph no. m0377
Bryozoa indet.crusts 		Photograph no. m0378
Sagartia elegans		 Photograph no. m0379
Cadlina laevis		 Photograph no. w0472
Marthasterias glacialis, Ophiothrix fragilis		 Photograph no. w0473
Ophiothrix fragilis, Luidia ciliaris		 Photograph no. w0474
Ophiothrix fragilis, Echinus esculentus
Photograph no. w0475
Metridium senile, Abietinaria abietina, Echinus esculentus		 Photograph no. w0476
Alcyonium digitatum		 Photograph no. w0477
Microstomus kitt		 Photograph no. w0478
Abietinaria abietina, Antedon bifida		 Photograph no. w0479
Alcyonium digitatum

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