Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

NE of Farganlack Point, Rathlin Is.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830607/06 Date: 1983-06-07 GPS: 55.31233,-6.25100. Depth: -15.0 to -16.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Flat rock terrace alongside with small caves at base. Flat rock with kelp & red algae caves with rich sponge cover. One of the small caves had roof covered with Parerythropodium coralloides in 1988.

Species list (67 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Haliclona urceolus	Halecium halecinum	CRUSTACEA	Talochlamys distorta	TUNICATA	Molgula complanata
Sycon ciliatum	Haliclona viscosa	Sertularella gayi	Cancer pagurus	BRYOZOA	Polyclinum aurantium	RHODOPHYTA
Pachymatisma johnstonia	Dysidea fragilis	Kirchenpaueria pinnata	MOLLUSCA	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Morchellium argus	Kallymenia reniformis
Dercitus bucklandi	Spongionella pulchella	Nemertesia antennina	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Securiflustra securifrons	Aplidium nordmanni	Schottera nicaeensis
Stelligera montagui	Halisarca dujardinii	Alcyonium digitatum	Tritonia hombergii	Bugulina flabellata	Didemnum sp.	Plocamium cartilagineum
Suberites carnosus	Haliclona sp.	Metridium senile	Polycera faeroensis	Bicellariella ciliata	Ciona intestinalis	Lomentaria orcadensis
Tethya citrina	CNIDARIA	Cylista elegans	Cadlina laevis	Cellaria sinuosa	Corella parallelogramma	Rhodymenia pseudopalmata
Hemimycale columella	Tubularia indivisa	Actinothoe sphyrodeta	Doto sp.	ECHINODERMATA	Ascidiella scabra	Cryptopleura ramosa
Phorbas fictitius	Ectopleura larynx	Phellia gausapata	Coryphella browni	Antedon bifida	Ascidia mentula	Delesseria sanguinea
Myxilla incrustans	Eudendrium annulatum	Corynactis viridis	Coryphella lineata	Henricia oculata	Polycarpa scuba
Axinella infundibuliformis	Garveia nutans	Caryophyllia smithii	Edmundsella pedata	Asterias rubens	Botryllus schlosseri

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