Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

SE Altacarry Head, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850628/04 Date: 1985-06-28 GPS: 55.29550,-6.16700 [ View map ]

Site Description: Very steep bedrock with many vertical faces/deep fissures. Rock in blocks; flat surfaces; dense kelp on ledges with thick epifauna.

Species list (55 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Caryophyllia smithii	Diaphorodoris luteocincta	Parasmittina trispinosa	RHODOPHYTA	Plocamium cartilagineum	CHROMOPHYTA
Stelligera montagui	ANNELIDA	Cadlina laevis	ECHINODERMATA	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides	Lomentaria orcadensis	Cutleria
Hemimycale columella	Sabella pavonina	Doris pseudoargus	Asterias rubens	Bonnemaisonia intricata	Heterosiphonia plumosa	Dictyota dichotoma
Axinella infundibuliformis	Filograna implexa	BRYOZOA	Leptasterias muelleri	Palmaria palmata	Cryptopleura ramosa	Desmarestia aculeata
CNIDARIA	CRUSTACEA	Crisia eburnea	Echinus esculentus	Lithophyllum sp.	Delesseria sanguinea	Laminaria hyperborea
Halopteris catharina	Cancer pagurus	Membranipora membranacea	TUNICATA	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Membranoptera alata
Nemertesia antennina	MOLLUSCA	Bugulina flabellata	Clavelina lepadiformis	Kallymenia reniformis	Nitophyllum punctatum
Obelia geniculata	Steromphala cineraria	Bicellariella ciliata	Aplidium punctum	Meredithia microphylla	Phycodrys rubens
Alcyonium digitatum	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Caberea ellisii	Didemnum sp.	Phyllophora crispa	Brongniartella byssoides
Actinothoe sphyrodeta	Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata	Cellaria sinuosa	Botryllus schlosseri	Schottera nicaeensis	Odonthalia dentata

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