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Runkerry Point, Portrush.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840704/07 Date: 1984-07-04 GPS: 55.23333,-6.53267 [ View map ]

Site Description: Dense kelp forest on bedrock. Ascidians abundant. Inshore at base of cliff large boulders with red algae and sporelings of Laminaria and Alaria.

Species list (71 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Cylista elegans	Flustra foliacea	Aplidium punctum	Cruoria cruoriaeformis	Pterothamnion plumula	CHROMOPHYTA
Sycon ciliatum	CRUSTACEA	Bicellariella ciliata	Didemnum sp.	Calliblepharis ciliata	Ptilota gunneri	Dictyota dichotoma
Myxilla incrustans	Balanus crenatus	ECHINODERMATA	Diplosoma listerianum	Rhodophyllis divaricata	Heterosiphonia plumosa	Desmarestia aculeata
Amphilectus fucorum	MOLLUSCA	Henricia oculata	Dendrodoa grossularia	Dilsea carnosa	Acrosorium venulosum	Desmarestia ligulata
Halichondria panicea	Steromphala cineraria	Asterias rubens	Botryllus schlosseri	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Cryptopleura ramosa	Desmarestia viridis
CNIDARIA	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Echinus esculentus	Botrylloides leachi	Kallymenia reniformis	Delesseria sanguinea	Laminaria hyperborea
Sertularia argentea	Ocenebra erinacea	Aslia lefevrei	PISCES	Phyllophora crispa	Hypoglossum hypoglossoides	Laminaria saccharina
Nemertesia antennina	Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata	TUNICATA	Scyliorhinus canicula	Plocamium cartilagineum	Phycodrys rubens	CHLOROPHYTA
Plumularia setacea	BRYOZOA	Polyclinum aurantium	Labrus bergylta	Lomentaria clavellosa	Brongniartella byssoides	Ulva lactuca
Obelia geniculata	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Morchellium argus	RHODOPHYTA	Lomentaria orcadensis	Odonthalia dentata	Chaetomorpha melagonium
Alcyonium digitatum	Membranipora membranacea	Sidnyum turbinatum	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides	Rhodymenia pseudopalmata	Polysiphonia stricta
Urticina felina	Electra pilosa	Aplidium nordmanni	Lithophyllum sp.	Ceramium sp.	Pterosiphonia parasitica

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