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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 (70 species recorded)

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

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