Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

NW of Derginan Point, Rathlin Is.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830609/02 Date: 1983-06-09 GPS: 55.30600,-6.27400. Depth: -25.0 to -26.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Boulder slope at the top of cliff with thin kelp forest and dense cover of red algae particulary Delesseria.

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Species list (68 species recorded)

PORIFERA Axinella infundibuliformis Abietinaria abietina Caryophyllia smithii Pododesmus patelliformis Antedon bifida Didemnum sp.
Sycon ciliatum Halichondria bowerbanki Hydrallmania falcata ANNELIDA BRYOZOA Henricia oculata Ascidia mentula
Pachymatisma johnstonia Haliclona urceolus Sertularella gayi Pomatoceros triqueter Crisia eburnea Asterias rubens Polycarpa pomaria
Stelligera montagui Haliclona viscosa Halopteris catharina Serpula vermicularis Alcyonidium diaphanum Ophiothrix fragilis Polycarpa scuba
Raspailia hispida Dysidea fragilis Nemertesia antennina Filograna implexa Flustra foliacea Echinus esculentus Botryllus schlosseri
Polymastia boletiformis Halisarca dujardinii Aglaophenia tubulifera CRUSTACEA Securiflustra securifrons TUNICATA RHODOPHYTA
Suberites carnosus Haliclona sp. Rhizocaulus verticillatus Galathea strigosa Bicellariella ciliata Polyclinum aurantium Lithophyllum sp.
Tethya citrina CNIDARIA Alcyonium digitatum MOLLUSCA Cellaria sinuosa Synoicum pulmonaria Schottera nicaeensis
Iophon hyndmani Eudendrium sp. Parazoanthus anguicomus Calliostoma zizyphinum Parasmittina trispinosa Sidnyum sp. Rhodymenia pseudopalmata
Hemimycale columella Eudendrium arbusculum Urticina felina Tritonia hombergii Omalosecosa ramulosa Sidnyum turbinatum Delesseria sanguinea
Myxilla fimbriata Halecium halecinum Actinothoe sphyrodeta Diaphorodoris luteocincta ECHINODERMATA Aplidium nordmanni Brongniartella byssoides

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