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Arkill Bay, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840808/09 Date: 1984-08-08 GPS: 55.28133,-6.17500 [ View map ]

Site Description: Bedrock slope with many fissures & crevices. Thick kelp forest

Species list (66 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Caryophyllia smithii	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Diplosoma listerianum	Lithophyllum sp.	Heterosiphonia plumosa	CHROMOPHYTA
Clathrina coriacea	CRUSTACEA	Membranipora membranacea	Botryllus schlosseri	Rhodophyllis divaricata	Acrosorium venulosum	Cutleria
Pachymatisma johnstonia	Cancer pagurus	Electra pilosa	Botrylloides leachi	Dilsea carnosa	Cryptopleura ramosa	Dictyota dichotoma
Amphilectus fucorum	Necora puber	Parasmittina trispinosa	PISCES	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Delesseria sanguinea	Alaria esculenta
Haliclona viscosa	MOLLUSCA	ECHINODERMATA	Scyliorhinus stellaris	Schottera nicaeensis	Hypoglossum hypoglossoides	Laminaria hyperborea
CNIDARIA	Steromphala cineraria	Henricia oculata	Gobiusculus flavescens	Plocamium cartilagineum	Membranoptera alata	CHLOROPHYTA
Craterolophus convolvulus	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Asterias rubens	RHODOPHYTA	Rhodymenia pseudopalmata	Nitophyllum punctatum	Ulva lactuca
Sertularia argentea	Patella pellucida	Marthasterias glacialis	Schmitziella endophloea	Compsothamnion thuyoides	Phycodrys rubens	Chaetomorpha melagonium
Obelia geniculata	BRYOZOA	Echinus esculentus	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides	Halurus flosculosus	Odonthalia dentata	Cladophora sp.
Actinia equina	Crisia denticulata	TUNICATA	Bonnemaisonia intricata	Pterothamnion plumula	Polysiphonia stricta	Cladophora pellucida
Actinothoe sphyrodeta	Crisia eburnea	Didemnum sp.	Palmaria palmata	Ptilota gunneri	Pterosiphonia parasitica	Cladophora rupestris

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