Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Church Bay, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850625/06 Date: 1985-06-25 GPS: 55.29317,-6.21550 [ View map ]

Site Description: Boulders embedded in limestone, coarse sand/gravel. Kelp with much Spirorbis on blades, seaweeds good.

Species list (51 species recorded)

CNIDARIA	CRUSTACEA	Membranipora membranacea	Aplidium punctum	Palmaria palmata	Sphaerococcus coronopifolius	Phycodrys rubens
Obelia geniculata	Galathea squamifera	Electra pilosa	Didemnum maculosum	Lithophyllum sp.	Plocamium cartilagineum	Brongniartella byssoides
Alcyonium digitatum	Xantho pilipes	Bicellariella ciliata	Corella parallelogramma	Cruoria cruoriaeformis	Ptilota gunneri	Odonthalia dentata
Cylista elegans	MOLLUSCA	ECHINODERMATA	Dendrodoa grossularia	Calliblepharis ciliata	Heterosiphonia plumosa	CHROMOPHYTA
Caryophyllia smithii	Steromphala cineraria	Asterias rubens	PISCES	Cystoclonium purpureum	Cryptopleura ramosa	Dictyota dichotoma
ANNELIDA	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Marthasterias glacialis	Scyliorhinus canicula	Dilsea carnosa	Delesseria sanguinea	Laminaria hyperborea
Pomatoceros triqueter	Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata	Echinus esculentus	Callionymus lyra	Furcellaria lumbricalis	Hypoglossum hypoglossoides	Laminaria saccharina
Filograna implexa	BRYOZOA	TUNICATA	RHODOPHYTA	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Membranoptera alata
Spirorbis sp.	Crisia eburnea	Polyclinum aurantium	Bonnemaisonia intricata	Kallymenia reniformis	Nitophyllum punctatum