Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

SE Altacarry Head, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850628/03 Date: 1985-06-28 GPS: 55.29450,-6.16767 [ View map ]

Site Description: Slope of boulders cobble and pebble with thin forest of L. hyperborea & L. saccharina. Abundant red algae.

Species list and abundance (70 species recorded):

PORIFERA	CRUSTACEA	Electra pilosa P	TUNICATA	Rhodophyllis divaricata P	Pterothamnion plumula P	Polysiphonia sp. P
Leucosolenia sp. P	Galathea strigosa P	Securiflustra securifrons P	Clavelina lepadiformis P	Rhodophyllis werneri P	Heterosiphonia plumosa P	Pterosiphonia parasitica P
CNIDARIA	MOLLUSCA	Bugulina flabellata P	Corella parallelogramma P	Dilsea carnosa P	Acrosorium venulosum P	CHROMOPHYTA
Tubularia indivisa P	Steromphala cineraria P	Parasmittina trispinosa P	Botryllus schlosseri P	Halarachnion ligulatum P	Cryptopleura ramosa P	Halopteris filicina P
Ectopleura larynx P	Calliostoma zizyphinum P	ECHINODERMATA	PISCES	Metacallophyllis laciniata P	Delesseria sanguinea P	Dictyota dichotoma P
Halecium halecinum P	Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata P	Crossaster papposus P	Microstomus kitt P	Kallymenia reniformis P	Erythroglossum laciniatum P	Desmarestia ligulata P
Halopteris catharina P	Diaphorodoris luteocincta P	Henricia oculata P	RHODOPHYTA	Phyllophora crispa P	Haraldiophyllum bonnemaisonii P	Laminaria hyperborea P
Nemertesia antennina P	Antiopella cristata P	Asterias rubens P	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides P	Sphaerococcus coronopifolius P	Hypoglossum hypoglossoides P	Saccharina latissima P
Obelia geniculata P	Pododesmus patelliformis P	Marthasterias glacialis P	Bonnemaisonia intricata P	Plocamium cartilagineum P	Nitophyllum punctatum P	CHLOROPHYTA
Caryophyllia smithii P	BRYOZOA	Ophiothrix fragilis P	Lithophyllum sp. P	Lomentaria clavellosa P	Phycodrys rubens P	Bryopsis plumosa P
ANNELIDA	Alcyonidium diaphanum P	Ophiura albida P	Schmitzia hiscockiana P	Lomentaria orcadensis P	Brongniartella byssoides P
Sabella pavonina P	Membranipora membranacea P	Echinus esculentus P	Calliblepharis ciliata P	Halurus flosculosus P	Odonthalia dentata P

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