MBDP-NI: Site details W of Church Bay, Rathlin Is.

W of Church Bay, Rathlin Is.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830616/05 Date: 1983-06-16 GPS: 55.29500,-6.22500 [ View map ]

Site Description: Flat bedrock with fairly rough surface heavily silted and dense kelp forest. Interesting algae.

Species list and abundance (52 species recorded):

Biotope 1	Pomatoceros triqueter P	Antiopella cristata P	TUNICATA	Calliblepharis ciliata P	Lomentaria clavellosa P	Brongniartella byssoides P
PORIFERA	CRUSTACEA	BRYOZOA	Polyclinum aurantium P	Rhodophyllis divaricata P	Halurus flosculosus P	Odonthalia dentata P
Hemimycale columella P	Cancer pagurus P	Crisia eburnea P	Sidnyum turbinatum P	Dilsea carnosa P	Heterosiphonia plumosa P	Polysiphonia stricta P
CNIDARIA	MOLLUSCA	Alcyonidium diaphanum P	Aplidium punctum P	Metacallophyllis laciniata P	Cryptopleura ramosa P	Pterosiphonia parasitica P
Urticina felina P	Steromphala cineraria P	ECHINODERMATA	Didemnum sp. P	Kallymenia reniformis P	Delesseria sanguinea P	CHROMOPHYTA
Cylista elegans P	Calliostoma zizyphinum P	Asterias rubens P	Botryllus schlosseri P	Meredithia microphylla P	Drachiella spectabilis P	Halopteris filicina P
Cereus pedunculatus P	Lacuna (Epheria) vincta P	Leptasterias muelleri P	Botrylloides leachi P	Phyllophora crispa P	Haraldiophyllum bonnemaisonii P	Dictyota dichotoma P
Caryophyllia smithii P	Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata P	Marthasterias glacialis P	RHODOPHYTA	Sphaerococcus coronopifolius P	Hypoglossum hypoglossoides P	Laminaria hyperborea P
ANNELIDA	Candiella lineata P	Ophiura albida P	Corallina officinalis P	Plocamium cartilagineum P	Phycodrys rubens P	Saccharina latissima P