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Castle Head, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850626/02 Date: 1985-06-26 GPS: 55.30800,-6.21150 [ View map ]

Site Description: Steep boulder slope with some outcrops of bedrock. Dense kelp forest. Heavily silted.

Species list (38 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Dysidea fragilis	Sertularia argentea	Caryophyllia smithii	Flustra foliacea	Marthasterias glacialis	Botryllus schlosseri
Pachymatisma johnstonia	Aplysilla sulfurea	Halopteris catharina	CRUSTACEA	Bicellariella ciliata	TUNICATA	RHODOPHYTA
Iophonopsis nigricans	CNIDARIA	Nemertesia antennina	Cancer pagurus	ECHINODERMATA	Polyclinum aurantium	Phyllophora crispa
Phorbas fictitius	Tubularia indivisa	Nemertesia ramosa	MOLLUSCA	Porania pulvillus	Aplidium nordmanni	Delesseria sanguinea
Myxilla incrustans	Eudendrium sp.	Aglaophenia tubulifera	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Crossaster papposus	Ascidiella scabra
Amphilectus fucorum	Abietinaria abietina	Alcyonium digitatum	BRYOZOA	Henricia oculata	Polycarpa pomaria
Haliclona viscosa	Hydrallmania falcata	Parazoanthus anguicomus	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Asterias rubens	Polycarpa scuba

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