Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

W of Farganlack Point, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840809/04 Date: 1984-08-09 GPS: 55.30750,-6.26267. Depth: -8.0 to -9.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Large rockfaces somewhat scoured with lots of Lithothamnium & Dendrodoa.

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Species list (40 species recorded)

PORIFERA Haliclona viscosa Synarachnactis lloydii Bicellariella ciliata Dendrodoa grossularia Meredithia microphylla Haraldiophyllum bonnemaisonii
Clathrina coriacea CNIDARIA Actinothoe sphyrodeta ECHINODERMATA RHODOPHYTA Sphaerococcus coronopifolius Membranoptera alata
Stryphnus ponderosus Tubularia indivisa MOLLUSCA Henricia oculata Lithophyllum sp. Lomentaria orcadensis Odonthalia dentata
Pachymatisma johnstonia Diphasia rosacea Steromphala cineraria Asterias rubens Cruoria cruoriaeformis Ptilota gunneri CHROMOPHYTA
Dercitus bucklandi Sertularia argentea BRYOZOA TUNICATA Dilsea carnosa Acrosorium venulosum Dictyota dichotoma
Plocamilla coriacea Obelia geniculata Crisia eburnea Sidnyum turbinatum Metacallophyllis laciniata Cryptopleura ramosa Laminaria hyperborea
Hemimycale columella Alcyonium digitatum Alcyonidium diaphanum Aplidium nordmanni Kallymenia reniformis Delesseria sanguinea

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