Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

E of Castle Head, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850625/03 Date: 1985-06-25 GPS: 55.30750,-6.18833 [ View map ]

Site Description: Flat limestone platform with boulders and patches of cobble/pebble/sand. Dense kelp forest. Thick underflora.

Species list (30 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Obelia geniculata	Electra pilosa	Echinus esculentus	Lithophyllum sp.	Delesseria sanguinea	Dictyota dichotoma
Aplysilla sulfurea	Actinothoe sphyrodeta	Parasmittina trispinosa	PISCES	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Membranoptera alata	Laminaria hyperborea
CNIDARIA	Caryophyllia smithii	ECHINODERMATA	Scyliorhinus canicula	Kallymenia reniformis	Nitophyllum punctatum
Sarsia sp.	MOLLUSCA	Henricia oculata	RHODOPHYTA	Phyllophora crispa	Phycodrys rubens
Abietinaria abietina	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Asterias rubens	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides	Plocamium cartilagineum	Brongniartella byssoides
Sertularia argentea	BRYOZOA	Marthasterias glacialis	Bonnemaisonia intricata	Cryptopleura ramosa	CHROMOPHYTA