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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.

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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 Saccharina latissima
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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