Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Altachuile Bay, Rathlin Is.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830608/04 Date: 1983-06-08 GPS: 55.30833,-6.21967. Depth: -15.0 to -16.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Vertical limestone cliff with small horizontal caves from eroded bedding planes.

Species list (70 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Haliclona viscosa	Schizotricha frutescens	Trivia arctica	Porella compressa	Ctenolabrus rupestris	Cryptopleura ramosa
Sycon ciliatum	Dysidea fragilis	Aglaophenia tubulifera	Colpodaspis pusilla	ECHINODERMATA	Labrus bergylta	Delesseria sanguinea
Pachymatisma johnstonia	Haliclona sp.	Obelia geniculata	Diaphorodoris luteocincta	Henricia oculata	RHODOPHYTA	Phycodrys rubens
Stelligera montagui	CNIDARIA	Alcyonium digitatum	Acanthodoris pilosa	Ophiopholis aculeata	Lithophyllum sp.	Brongniartella byssoides
Polymastia boletiformis	Tubularia indivisa	Cylista elegans	Antiopella cristata	Echinus esculentus	Metacallophyllis laciniata	CHROMOPHYTA
Hemimycale columella	Ectopleura larynx	Actinothoe sphyrodeta	Coryphella lineata	TUNICATA	Kallymenia reniformis	Dictyota dichotoma
Myxilla fimbriata	Eudendrium sp.	Corynactis viridis	Tergipes tergipes	Sidnyum turbinatum	Meredithia microphylla	Carpomitra costata
Myxilla incrustans	Halecium halecinum	Caryophyllia smithii	Rubramoena amoena	Ascidia mentula	Schottera nicaeensis	Laminaria hyperborea
Mycale rotalis	Diphasia rosacea	CRUSTACEA	BRYOZOA	Polycarpa scuba	Plocamium cartilagineum
Hymeniacidon perleve	Kirchenpaueria pinnata	Necora puber	Crisia eburnea	Botrylloides leachi	Lomentaria orcadensis
Spongosorites calcicola	Nemertesia antennina	MOLLUSCA	Alcyonidium diaphanum	PISCES	Heterosiphonia plumosa
Haliclona urceolus	Nemertesia ramosa	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Bicellariella ciliata	Pollachius pollachius	Apoglossum ruscifolium

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