Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

E of Black Head, Rathlin Is.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830610/03 Date: 1983-06-10 GPS: 55.29000,-6.25533 [ View map ]

Site Description: Very silty boulder slope. Still much kelp but no forest. Many recently hatched dogfish egg cases.

Species list (55 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Nemertesia ramosa	Pagurus bernhardus	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Echinus esculentus	Pollachius virens	Odonthalia dentata
Pachymatisma johnstonia	Alcyonium digitatum	Galathea strigosa	Membranipora membranacea	TUNICATA	RHODOPHYTA	CHROMOPHYTA
Stelligera montagui	Cylista elegans	Cancer pagurus	Flustra foliacea	Clavelina lepadiformis	Lithophyllum sp.	Desmarestia aculeata
Polymastia boletiformis	Actinothoe sphyrodeta	Necora puber	Securiflustra securifrons	Aplidium nordmanni	Dilsea carnosa	Laminaria digitata
Halichondria panicea	Caryophyllia smithii	MOLLUSCA	ECHINODERMATA	Didemnum sp.	Sphaerococcus coronopifolius	Laminaria hyperborea
CNIDARIA	ANNELIDA	Steromphala cineraria	Porania pulvillus	Corella parallelogramma	Plocamium cartilagineum	Laminaria saccharina
Tubularia indivisa	Pomatoceros triqueter	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Henricia oculata	Ascidia mentula	Ptilota gunneri
Halecium halecinum	CRUSTACEA	Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata	Asterias rubens	Polycarpa scuba	Cryptopleura ramosa
Sertularella gayi	Balanus crenatus	Acanthodoris pilosa	Marthasterias glacialis	Botrylloides leachi	Delesseria sanguinea
Sertularia argentea	Homarus gammarus	BRYOZOA	Ophiopholis aculeata	PISCES	Phycodrys rubens