Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Rue Point, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840808/07 Date: 1984-08-08 GPS: 55.25717,-6.18917 [ View map ]

Site Description: Irregular bed rock with small gullies and areas of cobble. Very dense kelp forest.

Species list (38 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Obelia geniculata	BRYOZOA	Marthasterias glacialis	Cruoria sp.	Heterosiphonia plumosa	Pterosiphonia parasitica
Pachymatisma johnstonia	Caryophyllia smithii	Crisia eburnea	Echinus esculentus	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Cryptopleura ramosa	CHROMOPHYTA
Hemimycale columella	ANNELIDA	Membranipora membranacea	TUNICATA	Erythrodermis traillii	Delesseria sanguinea	Cutleria
Amphilectus fucorum	Filograna implexa	Electra pilosa	Didemnum sp.	Schottera nicaeensis	Membranoptera alata	Dictyota dichotoma
Haliclona viscosa	MOLLUSCA	Bicellariella ciliata	Botryllus schlosseri	Sphaerococcus coronopifolius	Phycodrys rubens	Laminaria hyperborea
CNIDARIA	Steromphala cineraria	ECHINODERMATA	RHODOPHYTA	Plocamium cartilagineum	Odonthalia dentata
Sertularia argentea	Cadlina laevis	Henricia oculata	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides	Ptilota gunneri	Polysiphonia stricta