Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

West Lighthouse, Rathlin Is.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830616/08 Date: 1983-06-16 GPS: 55.30050,-6.28233 [ View map ]

Site Description: Boulders in stable jumble with large kelp. Dense Odonthalia under kelp canopy.

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Species list (33 species recorded)

CNIDARIA Steromphala cineraria Bicellariella ciliata Echinus esculentus Lithophyllum sp. Heterosiphonia plumosa Pterosiphonia parasitica
Actinothoe sphyrodeta Calliostoma zizyphinum Parasmittina trispinosa TUNICATA Dilsea carnosa Cryptopleura ramosa CHROMOPHYTA
Caryophyllia smithii Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata ECHINODERMATA Botryllus schlosseri Metacallophyllis laciniata Delesseria sanguinea Dictyota dichotoma
CRUSTACEA BRYOZOA Henricia oculata PISCES Plocamium cartilagineum Membranoptera alata Desmarestia ligulata
Cancer pagurus Crisia eburnea Asterias rubens Labrus bergylta Pterothamnion plumula Phycodrys rubens Desmarestia viridis
MOLLUSCA Electra pilosa Marthasterias glacialis RHODOPHYTA Ptilota gunneri Odonthalia dentata Laminaria hyperborea

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