East Anglia Offshore Windfarm: Zonal Environmental Assessment Benthic Report
The taxonomic group OPHIUR OIDEA represents a class of bri ttlestars. Figures 16 and 14 reveal that OPHIUROIDEA was one of the most a bundant and wi dely distributed taxa sampled across the EAOW zone.
Figure 24 reveals that thi s taxon was found across all areas of the EAOW zon e, with particularly high abundances recorded within the western protuberance of A rea B and towards the north of Area B.
Figure 24. The distribution of OPHIUROIDEA abundance from all data acquired during the survey of the EAOW zon e, including both the or iginal sampling grid and the targeted stations.
