BioMar survey of the Hook Head area, Co. Wexford and Co. Waterford, September 1996  

SW of Great Saltee, Saltee Islands.

Dive number: 960906/02 Date: 6 September 1996

Site Description: The site was located to the south-west of a group of offshore islands on the south-east corner of Ireland. The seabed at 23 m BCD consisted of tideswept boulders on gravel with a rich variety of marine life, especially bryozoans.

Map site - Google maps: 52.098,-6.66433

Subsite: Lower circalittoral boulders on gravel with bryozoans and hydroids. details

Subsite Description: The seabed consisted of tideswept boulders on gravel with bryozoans, hydroids, sponges and ascidians. The most conspicuous species were Flustra foliacea, Pentapora foliacea, Cellaria spp. and Stolonica socialis.

Photograph no. m2992
Crisia denticulata		 Photograph no. m2993
Goniodoris nodosa, Alcyonidium diaphanum		 Photograph no. m2994
Haliclona viscosa		 Photograph no. m2995
Porifera indet. crusts 		Photograph no. m2996
Alcyonium digitatum, Calliostoma zizyphinum, Chartella papyracea		 Photograph no. m2997
Halecium muricatum
Photograph no. m2998
Halecium muricatum		 Photograph no. m2999
Actinothoe sphyrodeta		 Photograph no. m3000
Schizomavella sarniensis		 Photograph no. w2382
Antedon bifida, Stolonica socialis		 Photograph no. w2383
Alcyonium digitatum, Pentapora foliacea		 Photograph no. w2384
Luidia ciliaris, Stolonica socialis
Photograph no. w2385
Lophius piscatorius		 Photograph no. w2386
Alcyonium digitatum, Actinothoe sphyrodeta		 Photograph no. w2387
Actinothoe sphyrodeta, Schizomavella sarniensis		 Photograph no. w2388
Alcyonium digitatum, Flustra foliacea		 Photograph no. w2389
Amphilectus fucorum, Alcyonium digitatum		 Photograph no. w2390
Amphilectus fucorum, Phorbas fictitius, Alcyonium digitatum, Nemertesia antennina, Pentapora foliacea

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