BioMar survey of West Cork, Kinsale to Toe Head, August 1996  

Stags Sound, The Stags.


Dive number: 960813/01 Date: 13 August 1996

Site Description: The site was located on the south side of a sound between some offshore rocks and the mainland on the south coast of Ireland. The seabed from 24 - 32 m BCD consisted of current-swept bedrock with Alcyonium digitatum, Actinothoe sphyrodeta and a variety of bryozoans and hydroids.

Map site - Google maps: 51.47,-9.22933

Subsite: Lower circalittoral current swept bedrock. details

Subsite Description: The seabed consisted of current swept bedrock and angular boulders with Alcyonium digitatum, Actinothoe sphyrodeta, Pentapora foliacea and a variety of hydroids.

Photograph no. m2813
Hymeniacidon simplicima
Photograph no. m2814
Photograph no. m2815
Actinothoe sphyrodeta
Photograph no. m2816
Actinothoe sphyrodeta
Photograph no. m2817
Bryozoa indet.crusts
Photograph no. m2818
Salmacina dysteri
Photograph no. m2819
Cadlina laevis
Photograph no. m2820
Epizoanthus couchii
Photograph no. w2293
Alcyonium digitatum, Actinothoe sphyrodeta
Photograph no. w2294
Alcyonium digitatum
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Pentapora foliacea
Photograph no. w2296
Alcyonium digitatum, Actinothoe sphyrodeta
Photograph no. w2297
Axinella infundibuliformis, Alcyonium digitatum
Photograph no. w2298
Alcyonium digitatum, Salmacina dysteri

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