Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Arkill Bay, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850626/04 Date: 1985-06-26 GPS: 55.28133,-6.17250 [ View map ]

Site Description: Plain of smooth sand; some holes; brown diatom film on surface islands of bedrock and boulder; red epiphytes on kelp forest.

Species list (29 species recorded)

CNIDARIA	CRUSTACEA	Angulus sp.	RHODOPHYTA	Cryptopleura ramosa	CHROMOPHYTA	Ulva lactuca
Corymorpha nutans	Cancer pagurus	ECHINODERMATA	Lithophyllum sp.	Delesseria sanguinea	Dictyota dichotoma
Obelia geniculata	MOLLUSCA	Asterias rubens	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Membranoptera alata	Desmarestia aculeata
Cylista elegans	Steromphala cineraria	Marthasterias glacialis	Kallymenia reniformis	Phycodrys rubens	Laminaria hyperborea
ANNELIDA	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Echinus esculentus	Plocamium cartilagineum	Brongniartella byssoides	Laminaria saccharina
Lanice conchilega	Cumanotus beaumonti	Echinocardium cordatum	Heterosiphonia plumosa	Polysiphonia stricta	CHLOROPHYTA