MBDP-NI: Shamrock Pinnacle, Rathlin Island.

Shamrock Pinnacle, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19840816/02 Date: 1984-08-16 GPS: 55.35000,-6.39617. Depth: -27.0 to -28.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Terraced bedrock with an area of shattered rock. Alcyonium digitatum and Flustra foliacea common.

Species list (57 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Axinella infundibuliformis	Nemertesia antennina	MOLLUSCA	Parasmittina trispinosa	Labrus mixtus	Delesseria sanguinea
Leucandra fistulosa	Haliclona oculata	Aglaophenia tubulifera	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Omalosecosa ramulosa	RHODOPHYTA	Erythroglossum laciniatum
Sycon ciliatum	Haliclona viscosa	Alcyonium digitatum	Simnia patula	ECHINODERMATA	Rhodophyllis werneri	Haraldiophyllum bonnemaisonii
Pachymatisma johnstonia	Dysidea fragilis	Cylista elegans	Jorunna tomentosa	Antedon bifida	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Hypoglossum hypoglossoides
Stelligera montagui	CNIDARIA	Actinothoe sphyrodeta	BRYOZOA	Henricia oculata	Phyllophora crispa	CHROMOPHYTA
Raspailia hispida	Tubularia indivisa	Corynactis viridis	Crisia eburnea	Asterias rubens	Schottera nicaeensis	Dictyota dichotoma
Polymastia boletiformis	Ectopleura larynx	Caryophyllia smithii	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Echinus esculentus	Plocamium cartilagineum
Polymastia penicillus	Abietinaria abietina	CRUSTACEA	Flustra foliacea	PISCES	Rhodymenia ardissonei
Iophonopsis nigricans	Sertularella gayi	Palinurus elephas	Securiflustra securifrons	Ctenolabrus rupestris	Rhodymenia pseudopalmata
Phorbas fictitius	Sertularia argentea	Galathea nexa	Cellaria fistulosa	Labrus bergylta	Acrosorium venulosum