BioMar survey of South Donegal Bay area, May 1994  

Clashymore Harbour, Inishmurray, S Donegal Bay.

Dive number: 940518/03 Date: 18 May 1994

Site Description: The site was a natural harbour on the south side of a small island several miles offshore. Steep limestone terraces dropped to a dissected limestone platform. Patches of sand amongst the rocks were steeply duned but were colonised by some bivalves and Echinocardium pennatifidum.

Map site - Google maps: 54.428,-8.66617

Subsite: Upper infralittoral bedrock, exposed. details

Subsite Description: Moderately dense kelp forest on bedrock and boulders. The rock beneath the kelp was clean and covered with coralline algae and foliose red algae.

Subsite: Coarse duned sand. details

Subsite Description: Duned coarse sand in relatively small areas amongst limestone bedrock, with some bivalves and Echinocardium pennatifidum.

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Limanda limanda		 Photograph no. m0706
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Echinocardium pennatifidum		 Photograph no. m0708
Liocarcinus marmoreus		 Photograph no. w0860
Laminaria hyperborea
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Dilsea carnosa		 Photograph no. w0865
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Laminaria hyperborea		 Photograph no. w0871
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