Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

E Coast, Rathlin Is.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830615/06 Date: 1983-06-15 GPS: 55.28683,-6.17317 [ View map ]

Site Description: Steep bedrock slope with thick kelp forest. Heavily silted.

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Species list (41 species recorded)

PORIFERA Steromphala cineraria ECHINODERMATA Botryllus schlosseri Halarachnion ligulatum Lomentaria clavellosa Odonthalia dentata
Leucosolenia botryoides Calliostoma zizyphinum Henricia oculata Botrylloides leachi Metacallophyllis laciniata Heterosiphonia plumosa Polysiphonia stricta
Sycon ciliatum Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata Asterias rubens RHODOPHYTA Kallymenia reniformis Cryptopleura ramosa CHROMOPHYTA
Hemimycale columella Antiopella cristata Marthasterias glacialis Bonnemaisonia asparagoides Meredithia microphylla Delesseria sanguinea Halopteris filicina
CNIDARIA BRYOZOA Echinus esculentus Bonnemaisonia intricata Schottera nicaeensis Haraldiophyllum bonnemaisonii Dictyota dichotoma
Caryophyllia smithii Crisia eburnea TUNICATA Rhodophyllis divaricata Sphaerococcus coronopifolius Hypoglossum hypoglossoides Desmarestia aculeata
MOLLUSCA Alcyonidium diaphanum Aplidium punctum Dilsea carnosa Plocamium cartilagineum Brongniartella byssoides Laminaria hyperborea

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