MBDP-NI: Site details E Coast, Rathlin Island.

Priority species

Invasive species

E Coast, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840813/07 Date: 1984-08-13 GPS: 55.28683,-6.17317 [ View map ]

Site Description: Steep bedrock slope with thick kelp forest. Heavily silted.

Species list and abundance (37 species recorded):

PORIFERA	CRUSTACEA	Membranipora membranacea P	Clavelina lepadiformis P	Kallymenia reniformis P	Delesseria sanguinea P	CHROMOPHYTA
Pachymatisma johnstonia P	Cancer pagurus P	Electra pilosa P	Didemnum sp. P	Plocamium cartilagineum P	Erythroglossum laciniatum P	Dictyota dichotoma P
Amphilectus fucorum P	MOLLUSCA	Scrupocellaria scruposa P	RHODOPHYTA	Compsothamnion thuyoides P	Hypoglossum hypoglossoides P	Desmarestia aculeata P
Haliclona viscosa P	Steromphala cineraria P	ECHINODERMATA	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides P	Heterosiphonia plumosa P	Phycodrys rubens P	Laminaria hyperborea P
CNIDARIA	Calliostoma zizyphinum P	Marthasterias glacialis P	Bonnemaisonia intricata P	Acrosorium venulosum P	Brongniartella byssoides P
Obelia geniculata P	Patella pellucida P	Echinus esculentus P	Lithophyllum sp. P	Apoglossum ruscifolium P	Odonthalia dentata P
Caryophyllia smithii P	BRYOZOA	TUNICATA	Metacallophyllis laciniata P	Cryptopleura ramosa P	Pterosiphonia parasitica P