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 and abundance (55 species recorded):

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

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