MBDP-NI: Site details Altachuile Bay, Rathlin Is.

Altachuile Bay, Rathlin Is.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830608/03 Date: 1983-06-08 GPS: 55.30833,-6.21967. Depth: -25.0 to -26.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Stable boulder slope-current very variable-whirl pools etc. Dominated by T. indivisa.

Species list and abundance (52 species recorded):

PORIFERA	CNIDARIA	Obelia sp. P	Homarus gammarus P	Alcyonidium diaphanum P	Echinus esculentus P	Botrylloides leachi P
Pachymatisma johnstonia P	Tubularia indivisa P	Obelia dichotoma P	Pagurus bernhardus P	Securiflustra securifrons P	TUNICATA	RHODOPHYTA
Axinella infundibuliformis P	Ectopleura larynx P	Alcyonium digitatum P	Cancer pagurus P	Parasmittina trispinosa P	Clavelina lepadiformis P	Lithophyllum sp. P
Polymastia boletiformis P	Garveia nutans P	Cylista elegans P	Necora puber P	ECHINODERMATA	Corella parallelogramma P	Phyllophora crispa P
Polymastia penicillus P	Halecium halecinum P	Actinothoe sphyrodeta P	MOLLUSCA	Crossaster papposus P	Ascidiella scabra P	Cryptopleura ramosa P
Hemimycale columella P	Sertularella gayi P	Corynactis viridis P	Calliostoma zizyphinum P	Henricia oculata P	Ascidia mentula P	Delesseria sanguinea P
Halichondria panicea P	Sertularia argentea P	Caryophyllia smithii P	Dendronotus frondosus P	Asterias rubens P	Ascidia virginea P
Haliclona sp. P	Nemertesia antennina P	CRUSTACEA	Coryphella lineata P	Marthasterias glacialis P	Polycarpa scuba P
Haliclona urceolus P	Aglaophenia tubulifera P	Balanus crenatus P	BRYOZOA	Ophiopholis aculeata P	Botryllus schlosseri P