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Bull Point, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840808/03 Date: 1984-08-08 GPS: 55.29483,-6.28717 [ View map ]

Site Description: Slope of broken bedrock boulder to 17m then bedrock. Kelp forest of fairly small well spaced plants.

Species list (55 species recorded)

PORIFERA	ANNELIDA	Electra pilosa	Scyliorhinus stellaris	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Pterothamnion plumula	Pterosiphonia parasitica
Pachymatisma johnstonia	Pomatoceros triqueter	Porella compressa	Ctenolabrus rupestris	Meredithia microphylla	Heterosiphonia plumosa	CHROMOPHYTA
CNIDARIA	CRUSTACEA	Parasmittina trispinosa	Labrus mixtus	Schottera nicaeensis	Acrosorium venulosum	Dictyopteris polypodioides
Abietinaria abietina	Galathea nexa	ECHINODERMATA	Gobiusculus flavescens	Schizymenia dubyi	Cryptopleura ramosa	Dictyota dichotoma
Halopteris catharina	MOLLUSCA	Henricia oculata	Microstomus kitt	Plocamium cartilagineum	Delesseria sanguinea	Laminaria hyperborea
Nemertesia antennina	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Asterias rubens	RHODOPHYTA	Lomentaria orcadensis	Haraldiophyllum bonnemaisonii
Obelia geniculata	Limacia clavigera	Marthasterias glacialis	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides	Rhodymenia ardissonei	Hypoglossum hypoglossoides
Alcyonium digitatum	BRYOZOA	Amphipholis squamata	Bonnemaisonia intricata	Rhodymenia pseudopalmata	Nitophyllum punctatum
Actinothoe sphyrodeta	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Echinus esculentus	Rhodophyllis divaricata	Compsothamnion thuyoides	Phycodrys rubens
Caryophyllia smithii	Membranipora membranacea	PISCES	Halarachnion ligulatum	Halurus flosculosus	Polysiphonia stricta