MBDP-NI: Site details West Lighthouse, Rathlin Is.

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.

Species list and abundance (33 species recorded):

Biotope 1	Steromphala cineraria P	Parasmittina trispinosa P	Botryllus schlosseri P	Plocamium cartilagineum P	Phycodrys rubens P	Laminaria hyperborea P
CNIDARIA	Calliostoma zizyphinum P	ECHINODERMATA	PISCES	Pterothamnion plumula P	Odonthalia dentata P
Actinothoe sphyrodeta P	Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata P	Henricia oculata P	Labrus bergylta P	Ptilota gunneri P	Pterosiphonia parasitica P
Caryophyllia smithii P	BRYOZOA	Asterias rubens P	RHODOPHYTA	Heterosiphonia plumosa P	CHROMOPHYTA
CRUSTACEA	Crisia eburnea P	Marthasterias glacialis P	Lithophyllum sp. P	Cryptopleura ramosa P	Dictyota dichotoma P
Cancer pagurus P	Electra pilosa P	Echinus esculentus P	Dilsea carnosa P	Delesseria sanguinea P	Desmarestia ligulata P
MOLLUSCA	Bicellariella ciliata P	TUNICATA	Metacallophyllis laciniata P	Membranoptera alata P	Desmarestia viridis P