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Glannau Penmon

Coordinates: 53°17′13″N 4°04′12″W / 53.287°N 4.070°W / 53.287; -4.070
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Glannau Penmon - Biwmares
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Glannau Penmon is located in Wales
Glannau Penmon
Location within Wales
LocationWest Gwynedd
Grid referenceSH6211778674
Coordinates53°17′13″N 4°04′12″W / 53.287°N 4.070°W / 53.287; -4.070
InterestBiological and Geological
Area170.87 hectares (422.2 acres)
Notification1957

Glannau Penmon - Biwmares is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (or SSSI) in Anglesey, North Wales. It has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest since January 1957 in an attempt to protect its fragile biological and geological elements.[1] The site has an area of 170.87 hectares (422.2 acres) and is managed by Natural Resources Wales.

Type and features

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This SSSI has been notified as being of both geological and biological importance and the following are considered to be of Special Scientific Interest:

1. Communities of animals and plants of mixed sediment and of muddy gravel shores.
2. Four communities of restricted national distribution:

  • Piddocks burrowed into lower shore limestone overgrown with serrated wrack.
  • Sponges, sea-squirts and serrated wrack on tide-swept lower shore rock.
  • Sponges, sea-squirts, red seaweeds and serrated wrack found on a tideswept mixture of mud, sand, cobbles and pebbles.
  • Lower shore muddy gravel inhabited by a diverse group of small marine

worms.
3. Two species-rich communities of marine plants and animals:

  • Sponges, sea-squirts and sea-mats on bedrock overhangs.
  • Serrated wrack and various animals under lower shore boulders.

4. A succession of ice-age sediments, exposed in the soft coastal cliffs and foreshore at Lleiniog

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