Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

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 (52 species recorded)

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