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Altacarry Head, Rathlin Is.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19830617/03 Date: 1983-06-17 GPS: 55.30483,-6.16833. Depth: -25.0 to -26.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Boulders small to medium with a few cobbles. Limit of kelp -26m. Fairly rich fauna with Tubularia spp. and Halecium halecinum common.

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Species list and abundance (72 species recorded):

Biotope 1	Abietinaria abietina P	Urticina felina P	MOLLUSCA	Parasmittina trispinosa P	Diplosoma listerianum P	Metacallophyllis laciniata P
PORIFERA	Sertularella gayi P	Cylista elegans P	Steromphala cineraria P	ECHINODERMATA	Ascidiella scabra P	Plocamium cartilagineum P
Dysidea fragilis P	Sertularia argentea P	Actinothoe sphyrodeta P	Calliostoma zizyphinum P	Porania pulvillus P	Ascidia mentula P	Rhodymenia pseudopalmata P
Pachymatisma johnstonia P	Halopteris catharina P	Caryophyllia smithii P	Trivia arctica P	Crossaster papposus P	Polycarpa pomaria P	Cryptopleura ramosa P
Hemimycale columella P	Kirchenpaueria pinnata P	ANNELIDA	Dendronotus frondosus P	Henricia oculata P	Polycarpa scuba P	Delesseria sanguinea P
Myxilla fimbriata P	Nemertesia antennina P	Pomatoceros triqueter P	Pododesmus patelliformis P	Asterias rubens P	Botryllus schlosseri P	CHROMOPHYTA
Myxilla incrustans P	Nemertesia ramosa P	Filograna implexa P	BRACHIOPODA	Marthasterias glacialis P	Botrylloides leachi P	Laminaria hyperborea P
Haliclona sp. P	Plumularia setacea P	CRUSTACEA	Neocrania anomala P	Ophiothrix fragilis P	Pyura sp. P
CNIDARIA	Aglaophenia tubulifera P	Pandalus montagui P	BRYOZOA	Amphipholis squamata P	Pyura tessellata P
Tubularia indivisa P	Campanularia sp. P	Anapagurus hyndmanni P	Alcyonidium diaphanum P	Echinus esculentus P	PISCES
Ectopleura larynx P	Obelia geniculata P	Galathea squamifera P	Membranipora membranacea P	TUNICATA	Pholis gunnellus P
Eudendrium sp. P	Alcyonium digitatum P	Pisidia longicornis P	Bicellariella ciliata P	Polyclinum aurantium P	RHODOPHYTA
Halecium halecinum P	Parazoanthus anguicomus P	Cancer pagurus P	Cellaria sinuosa P	Aplidium nordmanni P	Lithophyllum sp. P

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