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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 (72 species recorded)

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

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