Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

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.

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Species list (37 species recorded)

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

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