Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

W Rue Point, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840813/06 Date: 1984-08-13 GPS: 55.26633,-6.19867 [ View map ]

Site Description: Very large smooth basaltic boulders small basaltic and limestone boulders on limestone bedrock. Sublittoral fringe to 3m.

Species list (48 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Mycale rotalis	Filograna implexa	Electra pilosa	Dendrodoa grossularia	Ptilota gunneri	Laminaria hyperborea
Clathrina coriacea	Haliclona fistulosa	Spirorbis sp.	Flustra foliacea	RHODOPHYTA	Acrosorium venulosum	Halidrys siliquosa
Oscarella sp.	Dysidea fragilis	MOLLUSCA	ECHINODERMATA	Corallina officinalis	Cryptopleura ramosa	CHLOROPHYTA
Pachymatisma johnstonia	CNIDARIA	Steromphala cineraria	Henricia oculata	Lithophyllum sp.	Delesseria sanguinea	Chaetomorpha melagonium
Polymastia boletiformis	Obelia geniculata	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Ophiothrix fragilis	Calliblepharis ciliata	Membranoptera alata
Tethya citrina	Urticina felina	Hinia (Hinia) reticulata	Echinus esculentus	Dilsea carnosa	Phycodrys rubens
Hemimycale columella	Cylista elegans	BRYOZOA	TUNICATA	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Brongniartella byssoides
Myxilla incrustans	Caryophyllia smithii	Crisia eburnea	Didemnum sp.	Phyllophora crispa	Odonthalia dentata
Amphilectus fucorum	ANNELIDA	Membranipora membranacea	Polycarpa scuba	Plocamium cartilagineum	CHROMOPHYTA