Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

W Rue Point, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840813/05 Date: 1984-08-13 GPS: 55.26617,-6.20000 [ View map ]

Site Description: Bedrock of pitted limestone with occasional small vertical face. Sponges quite common. Rock well covered. Kelp tall and dense.

Species list (55 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Axinella infundibuliformis	Spirorbis sp.	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Botryllus schlosseri	Schottera nicaeensis	Odonthalia dentata
Pachymatisma johnstonia	Halichondria panicea	CRUSTACEA	ECHINODERMATA	Botrylloides leachi	Plocamium cartilagineum	CHROMOPHYTA
Stelligera montagui	Haliclona fistulosa	Cancer pagurus	Antedon bifida	Pyura tessellata	Rhodymenia ardissonei	Halopteris filicina
Polymastia boletiformis	Dysidea fragilis	MOLLUSCA	Asterias rubens	RHODOPHYTA	Ptilota gunneri	Dictyota dichotoma
Polymastia penicillus	CNIDARIA	Steromphala cineraria	Echinus esculentus	Lithophyllum sp.	Heterosiphonia plumosa	Laminaria hyperborea
Suberites carnosus	Obelia geniculata	Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata	TUNICATA	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Acrosorium venulosum
Tethya citrina	Alcyonium digitatum	Berthella plumula	Didemnum sp.	Kallymenia reniformis	Cryptopleura ramosa
Hemimycale columella	Caryophyllia smithii	BRYOZOA	Ascidia mentula	Meredithia microphylla	Delesseria sanguinea
Myxilla incrustans	ANNELIDA	Crisia denticulata	Polycarpa pomaria	Phyllophora crispa	Membranoptera alata
Mycale rotalis	Filograna implexa	Crisia eburnea	Polycarpa scuba	Phyllophora pseudoceranoides	Phycodrys rubens