Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

NE of Farganlack Point, Rathlin Is.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830607/08 Date: 1983-06-07 GPS: 55.31167,-6.24983. Depth: -7.0 to -8.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Small cliff to 15m with small patches in rock. Many fissures. Rich sponges and algae.

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Species list (50 species recorded)

PORIFERA CNIDARIA Filograna implexa Calliostoma zizyphinum ECHINODERMATA Palmaria palmata Phycodrys rubens
Sycon ciliatum Tubularia indivisa Spirorbis sp. Patella pellucida Crossaster papposus Corallina officinalis Odonthalia dentata
Grantia compressa Halecium halecinum CRUSTACEA Coryphella lineata Echinus esculentus Lithophyllum sp. CHROMOPHYTA
Pachymatisma johnstonia Abietinaria abietina Balanus crenatus BRYOZOA TUNICATA Dilsea carnosa Desmarestia aculeata
Polymastia boletiformis Alcyonium digitatum Homarus gammarus Membranipora membranacea Ascidia mentula Chondrus crispus Laminaria digitata
Hemimycale columella Actinothoe sphyrodeta Pagurus bernhardus Electra pilosa Polycarpa scuba Plocamium cartilagineum Laminaria hyperborea
Myxilla incrustans Caryophyllia smithii Cancer pagurus Flustra foliacea Botryllus schlosseri Ptilota gunneri
Halichondria panicea ANNELIDA MOLLUSCA Securiflustra securifrons Botrylloides leachi Cryptopleura ramosa
Haliclona sp. Pomatoceros triqueter Steromphala cineraria Parasmittina trispinosa RHODOPHYTA Delesseria sanguinea

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