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White Cliffs, S Coast, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840807/01 Date: 1984-08-07 GPS: 55.28900,-6.27817 [ View map ]

Site Description: Steep boulder slope with few animals but many algae. Radicilingua thysanorhizans very abundant. Very thin encrusting sponges frequent.

Species list (54 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Alcyonium digitatum	Cellaria sinuosa	Polycarpa pomaria	Rhodophyllis werneri	Compsothamnion thuyoides	Pterosiphonia parasitica
Pachymatisma johnstonia	Actinothoe sphyrodeta	Porella compressa	PISCES	Halarachnion ligulatum	Pterothamnion plumula	CHROMOPHYTA
Haliclona viscosa	Caryophyllia smithii	Parasmittina trispinosa	Ctenolabrus rupestris	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Acrosorium venulosum	Dictyopteris polypodioides
CNIDARIA	CRUSTACEA	Cellepora pumicosa	Labrus bergylta	Kallymenia reniformis	Cryptopleura ramosa	Dictyota dichotoma
Tubularia indivisa	Homarus gammarus	Omalosecosa ramulosa	Labrus mixtus	Phyllophora crispa	Delesseria sanguinea
Abietinaria abietina	MOLLUSCA	ECHINODERMATA	RHODOPHYTA	Schottera nicaeensis	Haraldiophyllum bonnemaisonii
Halopteris catharina	Tonicella marmorea	Asterias rubens	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides	Plocamium cartilagineum	Hypoglossum hypoglossoides
Nemertesia antennina	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Echinus esculentus	Bonnemaisonia intricata	Lomentaria orcadensis	Nitophyllum punctatum
Nemertesia ramosa	Cadlina laevis	TUNICATA	Schmitzia hiscockiana	Rhodymenia ardissonei	Phycodrys rubens
Aglaophenia tubulifera	BRYOZOA	Ascidia mentula	Rhodophyllis divaricata	Rhodymenia pseudopalmata	Radicilingua thysanorhizans

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