BioMar survey of the Saltee Islands and Wexford area, June 1994  

ESE of Whitty Rock, Great Saltee, Saltee Islands.

Dive number: 940627/02 Date: 27 June 1994

Site Description: The site was located to the east of a small offshore island at the southern entrance to the Irish Sea. The seabed consisted of current swept cobbles, gravel and boulders. Bryozoans and hydroids were abundant and diverse.

Map site - Google maps: 52.113,-6.65233

Subsite: Current swept mixed substrate with boulders. details

Subsite Description: A mixture of large and small boulders with patches of cobbles and coarse shelly gravel. Hydroids and bryozoans were abundant on the cobbles and boulders.

Photograph no. m0920
Stolonica socialis		 Photograph no. m0921
Flustra foliacea		 Photograph no. m0922
Inachus phalangium, Bugula plumosa		 Photograph no. m0923
Schizomavella sarniensis		 Photograph no. m0924
Schizomavella sarniensis		 Photograph no. m0925
Leucosolenia botryoides, Chartella papyracea
Photograph no. w1092
Haliclona viscosa		 Photograph no. w1093
Alcyonidium diaphanum, Antedon bifida, Crossaster papposus		 Photograph no. w1094
Neopentadactyla mixta		 Photograph no. w1095
Scyliorhinus canicula		 Photograph no. w1096
Stolonica socialis		 Photograph no. w1097
Stolonica socialis
Photograph no. w1098
Flustra foliacea		 Photograph no. w1099
Tubularia indivisa, Schizomavella sarniensis

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