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Rue Point, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840808/06 Date: 1984-08-08 GPS: 55.25667,-6.19133 [ View map ]

Site Description: Boulder /cobble plain with some bedrock. Undulating topography. Small L. hyperborea plants. Lots of Echinus.

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Species list (60 species recorded)

PORIFERA Sertularia argentea Galathea nexa Talochlamys distorta TUNICATA Bonnemaisonia intricata Compsothamnion thuyoides
Pachymatisma johnstonia Halopteris catharina Galathea strigosa BRYOZOA Ascidia conchilega Calliblepharis ciliata Halurus flosculosus
Stelligera montagui Nemertesia antennina Cancer pagurus Membranipora membranacea Ascidia mentula Rhodophyllis werneri Acrosorium venulosum
Axinella infundibuliformis Obelia geniculata Necora puber Electra pilosa Polycarpa pomaria Dilsea carnosa Cryptopleura ramosa
Haliclona viscosa Alcyonium digitatum MOLLUSCA Parasmittina trispinosa Botryllus schlosseri Metacallophyllis laciniata Delesseria sanguinea
Dysidea fragilis Actinothoe sphyrodeta Leptochiton asellus ECHINODERMATA Boltenia echinata Kallymenia reniformis Nitophyllum punctatum
Aplysilla sulfurea Caryophyllia smithii Gibbula (Colliculus) tumida Henricia oculata Pyura squamulosa Phyllophora crispa Phycodrys rubens
CNIDARIA ANNELIDA Steromphala cineraria Asterias rubens Pyura tessellata Plocamium cartilagineum CHROMOPHYTA
Tubularia indivisa Alentia gelatinosa Calliostoma zizyphinum Marthasterias glacialis RHODOPHYTA Lomentaria orcadensis Dictyota dichotoma
Sertularella gayi CRUSTACEA Eubranchus tricolor Echinus esculentus Bonnemaisonia asparagoides Rhodymenia pseudopalmata Laminaria hyperborea

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