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White Cliffs, S Coast, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840809/05 Date: 1984-08-09 GPS: 55.28967,-6.27717 [ View map ]

Site Description: Mixture of bedrock and large rounded boulders with occasional patch of smaller boulders (basalt & limestone) tall kelp & red algae.

Species list and abundance (57 species recorded):

Biotope 1	Cylista elegans P	Xantho pilipes P	Parasmittina trispinosa P	RHODOPHYTA	Plocamium cartilagineum P	Nitophyllum punctatum P
PORIFERA	Actinothoe sphyrodeta P	MOLLUSCA	ECHINODERMATA	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides P	Lomentaria orcadensis P	Phycodrys rubens P
Clathrina coriacea P	Caryophyllia smithii P	Steromphala cineraria P	Asterias rubens P	Lithophyllum sp. P	Compsothamnion thuyoides P	Odonthalia dentata P
Sycon ciliatum P	ANNELIDA	Calliostoma zizyphinum P	Ophiothrix fragilis P	Calliblepharis ciliata P	Halurus flosculosus P	CHROMOPHYTA
Dysidea fragilis P	Pomatoceros triqueter P	Polycera faeroensis P	Echinus esculentus P	Rhodophyllis divaricata P	Ptilota gunneri P	Halopteris filicina P
Cliona celata P	Filograna implexa P	BRYOZOA	TUNICATA	Dilsea carnosa P	Heterosiphonia plumosa P	Dictyota dichotoma P
Hemimycale columella P	CRUSTACEA	Alcyonidium diaphanum P	Sidnyum turbinatum P	Metacallophyllis laciniata P	Acrosorium venulosum P	Desmarestia aculeata P
CNIDARIA	Anapagurus hyndmanni P	Membranipora membranacea P	Ascidia mentula P	Kallymenia reniformis P	Cryptopleura ramosa P	Laminaria hyperborea P
Obelia geniculata P	Pisidia longicornis P	Electra pilosa P	Polycarpa scuba P	Meredithia microphylla P	Delesseria sanguinea P
Urticina felina P	Cancer pagurus P	Bicellariella ciliata P	Botryllus schlosseri P	Phyllophora crispa P	Membranoptera alata P

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