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E of Doon Point, Rathlin Is.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830607/03 Date: 1983-06-07 GPS: 55.27067,-6.17433. Depth: -16.0 to -17.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Flat low bedrock occ boulders with sand/silt on surface. Patches of consolidated sand mixed with pebble-Polyides. Kelp very battered.

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Species list (64 species recorded)

PORIFERA Pomatoceros triqueter Aequipecten opercularis Henricia oculata Diplosoma listerianum Dilsea carnosa Brongniartella byssoides
Raspailia ramosa Spirorbis sp. BRYOZOA Asterias rubens Corella parallelogramma Metacallophyllis laciniata Odonthalia dentata
Polymastia penicillus CRUSTACEA Crisia denticulata Marthasterias glacialis Ascidiella scabra Kallymenia reniformis Polysiphonia fucoides
Halichondria panicea Anapagurus hyndmanni Crisia eburnea Ophiura albida Ascidia mentula Phyllophora crispa Rhodomela confervoides
Hymeniacidon perleve Pilumnus hirtellus Alcyonidium diaphanum Echinus esculentus Polycarpa pomaria Polyides rotundus CHROMOPHYTA
CNIDARIA MOLLUSCA Membranipora membranacea TUNICATA Botryllus schlosseri Plocamium cartilagineum Desmarestia aculeata
Obelia geniculata Tricolia (Tricolia) pullus Electra pilosa Polyclinum aurantium PISCES Heterosiphonia plumosa Laminaria hyperborea
Alcyonium digitatum Steromphala cineraria Bugulina flabellata Morchellium argus Pleuronectes platessa Cryptopleura ramosa Saccharina latissima
Caryophyllia smithii Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata Cellaria sinuosa Sidnyum turbinatum RHODOPHYTA Delesseria sanguinea Halidrys siliquosa
ANNELIDA Polycera faeroensis ECHINODERMATA Aplidium nordmanni Lithophyllum sp. Hypoglossum hypoglossoides
Sabella pavonina Limacia clavigera Antedon bifida Didemnum sp. Calliblepharis ciliata Membranoptera alata

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