Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Church Bay, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850627/04 Date: 1985-06-27 GPS: 55.27617,-6.22200. Depth: -29.0 to -30.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Stable boulder and cobble plain with patches of gravel. Dense cover of hydroids.

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Species list (83 species recorded)

PORIFERA Ectopleura larynx Schizotricha frutescens Balanus crenatus Pecten maximus Henricia oculata Polycarpa pomaria
Sycon ciliatum Halecium halecinum Aglaophenia tubulifera Pagurus bernhardus Aequipecten opercularis Asterias rubens Botryllus schlosseri
Polymastia boletiformis Abietinaria abietina Lytocarpia myriophyllum Munida rugosa Palliolum tigerinum Marthasterias glacialis PISCES
Suberites carnosus Diphasia fallax Alcyonium digitatum Hyas coarctatus BRYOZOA Ophiura albida Taurulus bubalis
Hymedesmia paupertas Diphasia margareta Synarachnactis lloydii Inachus leptochirus Alcyonidium diaphanum Echinus esculentus Pholis gunnellus
Hemimycale columella Hydrallmania falcata Urticina eques Cancer pagurus Eucratea loricata TUNICATA RHODOPHYTA
Myxilla incrustans Sertularella gayi Urticina felina MOLLUSCA Flustra foliacea Polyclinum aurantium Lithophyllum sp.
Amphilectus fucorum Sertularella polyzonias Stomphia coccinea Calliostoma zizyphinum Securiflustra securifrons Aplidium nordmanni Delesseria sanguinea
Axinella infundibuliformis Sertularia argentea Caryophyllia smithii Trivia arctica Bicellariella ciliata Aplidium punctum Erythroglossum laciniatum
Haliclona urceolus Halopteris catharina ANNELIDA Doto fragilis Cellaria fistulosa Didemnum maculosum
Haliclona viscosa Kirchenpaueria pinnata Chaetopterus variopedatus Polycera faeroensis Parasmittina trispinosa Corella parallelogramma
Dysidea fragilis Nemertesia antennina Lanice conchilega Antiopella cristata ECHINODERMATA Ascidiella scabra
Hymedesmia sp. Nemertesia ramosa Pomatoceros triqueter Coryphella lineata Antedon bifida Ascidia mentula
CNIDARIA Plumularia setacea CRUSTACEA Eubranchus tricolor Crossaster papposus Ascidia virginea

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