BioMar survey of the Mullet peninsula area, Co. Mayo, August 1994  

Carrickalaveen, Inishkea Islands.

Dive number: 940807/04 Date: 7 August 1994

Site Description: The site was located to the east of a small offshore rock at the southern end of a chain of islands. It was fully exposed to the open Atlantic. Between 12 m BCD and 21 m BCD the seabed consisted of steep sided gullies and rock faces. Vertical faces had Corynactis viridis and Crisia denticulata with Sagartia elegans. Horizontal surfaces had sparse kelp, Laminaria hyperborea and foliose red algae. Urticina felina were abundant in patches at the base of vertical rock faces.

Map site - Google maps: 54.096,-10.23233

Subsite: Lower infralittoral bedrock with Laminaria hyperborea. details

Subsite Description: Lower infralittoral bedrock with Laminaria hyperborea.

Photograph no. m1063
Nitophyllum punctatum		 Photograph no. m1064
Urticina felina		 Photograph no. m1065
Crisia denticulata		 Photograph no. m1066
Aplidium glabrum		 Photograph no. m1067
Aplidium glabrum		 Photograph no. m1068
Nemertesia antennina
Photograph no. m1069
Phellia gausapata		 Photograph no. m1070
Sagartia elegans		 Photograph no. m1071
Sagartia elegans, Diplosoma spongiforme		 Photograph no. m1072
Clathrina coriacea		 Photograph no. w1363
Tubularia indivisa		 Photograph no. w1364
Kallymenia reniformis, Delesseria sanguinea
Photograph no. w1365
Urticina felina, Asterias rubens		 Photograph no. w1366
Laminaria hyperborea		 Photograph no. w1367
Drachiella spectabilis		 Photograph no. w1368
Sagartia elegans		 Photograph no. w1369
Corallina officinalis, Laminaria hyperborea		 Photograph no. w1370
Sagartia elegans
Photograph no. w1371
Sagartia elegans		 Photograph no. w1372

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