MBDP-NI: Site details E of Black Head, Rathlin Is.

Priority species

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

No biotope record.

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