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W Rue Point, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840813/04 Date: 1984-08-13 GPS: 55.26517,-6.20100 [ View map ]

Site Description: Plain of pebble and gravel with scattered big boulders. Occasional large kelp plants. Echinus very abundant. Red algae dominant. No silt.

Species list (60 species recorded)

CNIDARIA	MOLLUSCA	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Ophiothrix fragilis	Schmitzia hiscockiana	Lomentaria orcadensis	Phycodrys rubens
Tubularia indivisa	Leptochiton asellus	Parasmittina trispinosa	Echinus esculentus	Calliblepharis ciliata	Compsothamnion thuyoides	Brongniartella byssoides
Sertularia argentea	Emarginula (Emarginula) fissura	ECHINODERMATA	TUNICATA	Rhodophyllis werneri	Pterothamnion plumula	Odonthalia dentata
Caryophyllia smithii	Steromphala cineraria	Luidia ciliaris	Clavelina lepadiformis	Halarachnion ligulatum	Heterosiphonia plumosa	Pterosiphonia parasitica
ANNELIDA	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Solaster endeca	RHODOPHYTA	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Acrosorium venulosum	CHROMOPHYTA
Chaetopterus variopedatus	Lacuna (Epheria) vincta	Crossaster papposus	Scinaia interrupta	Kallymenia reniformis	Apoglossum ruscifolium	Dictyota dichotoma
Pomatoceros triqueter	Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata	Henricia oculata	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides	Phyllophora crispa	Cryptopleura ramosa	Desmarestia aculeata
CRUSTACEA	Aequipecten opercularis	Asterias rubens	Bonnemaisonia intricata	Schottera nicaeensis	Delesseria sanguinea	Desmarestia ligulata
Munida rugosa	Eledone cirrhosa	Leptasterias muelleri	Corallina officinalis	Plocamium cartilagineum	Hypoglossum hypoglossoides	Laminaria hyperborea
Cancer pagurus	BRYOZOA	Marthasterias glacialis	Lithophyllum sp.	Lomentaria clavellosa	Nitophyllum punctatum

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