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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.

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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