Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Arkill Bay, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840808/08 Date: 1984-08-08 GPS: 55.28133,-6.17250 [ View map ]

Site Description: Plain of smooth sand; some holes; brown diatom film on surface islands of bedrock and boulder; red epiphytes on kelp forest.

Species list (53 species recorded)

CNIDARIA	Pisidia longicornis	Membranipora membranacea	RHODOPHYTA	Dilsea carnosa	Rhodymenia delicatula	Membranoptera alata
Obelia geniculata	Necora puber	Electra pilosa	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides	Chondrus crispus	Rhodymenia pseudopalmata	Nitophyllum punctatum
Actinothoe sphyrodeta	Xantho incisus	ECHINODERMATA	Bonnemaisonia intricata	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Ceramium sp.	Phycodrys rubens
Caryophyllia smithii	Xantho pilipes	Marthasterias glacialis	Palmaria palmata	Kallymenia reniformis	Halurus flosculosus	Brongniartella byssoides
ANNELIDA	MOLLUSCA	Echinus esculentus	Ahnfeltia plicata	Phyllophora crispa	Heterosiphonia plumosa	Odonthalia dentata
Pomatoceros triqueter	Steromphala cineraria	TUNICATA	Lithophyllum sp.	Sphaerococcus coronopifolius	Acrosorium venulosum	CHROMOPHYTA
Spirorbis sp.	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Didemnum sp.	Cystoclonium purpureum	Plocamium cartilagineum	Cryptopleura ramosa	Dictyota dichotoma
CRUSTACEA	BRYOZOA	PISCES	Rhodophyllis divaricata	Lomentaria articulata	Delesseria sanguinea	Desmarestia aculeata
Pandalus montagui	Crisia eburnea	Conger conger	Rhodophyllis werneri	Lomentaria orcadensis	Hypoglossum hypoglossoides	Laminaria hyperborea