Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

W of Castle Head, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840815/03 Date: 1984-08-15 GPS: 55.30650,-6.20817. Depth: -8.0 to -9.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Big limestone boulders with patches of very clean gravel between. Some flat bed rock highly scoured. Dense kelp forest (tall).

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Species list (86 species recorded)

PORIFERA Dysidea fragilis Sabella pavonina Cellaria fistulosa Ascidia virginea Metacallophyllis laciniata Apoglossum ruscifolium
Sycon ciliatum Halisarca dujardinii Pomatoceros triqueter Cellaria sinuosa Polycarpa pomaria Kallymenia reniformis Cryptopleura ramosa
Oscarella sp. Haliclona sp. Filograna implexa Parasmittina trispinosa Dendrodoa grossularia Meredithia microphylla Delesseria sanguinea
Pachymatisma johnstonia Stylostichon sp. CRUSTACEA Cellepora pumicosa Botryllus schlosseri Erythrodermis traillii Erythroglossum laciniatum
Polymastia penicillus CNIDARIA Cancer pagurus ECHINODERMATA Botrylloides leachi Phyllophora crispa Haraldiophyllum bonnemaisonii
Suberites carnosus Tubularia indivisa MOLLUSCA Henricia oculata PISCES Phyllophora pseudoceranoides Hypoglossum hypoglossoides
Plocamilla coriacea Sertularia argentea Steromphala cineraria Asterias rubens Ctenolabrus rupestris Schottera nicaeensis Membranoptera alata
Hemimycale columella Nemertesia antennina Calliostoma zizyphinum Marthasterias glacialis Labrus mixtus Plocamium cartilagineum Phycodrys rubens
Myxilla incrustans Obelia geniculata Limacia clavigera Ophiothrix fragilis RHODOPHYTA Lomentaria clavellosa Brongniartella byssoides
Myxilla rosacea Alcyonium digitatum BRYOZOA Echinus esculentus Bonnemaisonia asparagoides Rhodymenia ardissonei Odonthalia dentata
Amphilectus fucorum Actinothoe sphyrodeta Crisia eburnea TUNICATA Corallina officinalis Rhodymenia pseudopalmata CHROMOPHYTA
Mycale rotalis Caryophyllia smithii Alcyonidium diaphanum Corella parallelogramma Lithophyllum sp. Ptilota gunneri Dictyota dichotoma
Halichondria panicea ANNELIDA Membranipora membranacea Ascidiella scabra Rhodophyllis divaricata Heterosiphonia plumosa Laminaria hyperborea
Haliclona viscosa Chaetopterus variopedatus Electra pilosa Ascidia mentula Dilsea carnosa Acrosorium venulosum

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