MBDP-NI: Site details Church Bay, Rathlin Island.

Church Bay, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850703/01 Date: 1985-07-03 GPS: 55.26817,-6.23183. Depth: -41.0 to -42.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Ridges of boulders with clean shell gravel.

Species list and abundance (49 species recorded):

Biotope 1	Ectopleura larynx P	Kirchenpaueria pinnata P	CRUSTACEA	Buccinum undatum P	Securiflustra securifrons P	PISCES
PORIFERA	Halecium halecinum P	Nemertesia antennina P	Pagurus bernhardus P	Acanthodoris pilosa P	Bicellariella ciliata P	Pholis gunnellus P
Polymastia sp. P	Halecium muricatum P	Nemertesia ramosa P	Munida rugosa P	Coryphella browni P	Cellaria fistulosa P	Callionymus lyra P
Polymastia penicillus P	Abietinaria abietina P	Plumularia setacea P	Hyas coarctatus P	Venus casina P	ECHINODERMATA	Pleuronectes platessa P
Myxilla incrustans P	Diphasia sp. P	Alcyonium digitatum P	Inachus leptochirus P	BRYOZOA	Asterias rubens P	RHODOPHYTA
Suberites carnosus P	Hydrallmania falcata P	Urticina felina P	Cancer pagurus P	Alcyonidium diaphanum P	Echinus esculentus P	Lithophyllum sp. P
Haliclona oculata P	Sertularella gayi P	Caryophyllia smithii P	MOLLUSCA	Vesicularia spinosa P	Spatangus purpureus P
CNIDARIA	Sertularia argentea P	ANNELIDA	Calliostoma zizyphinum P	Eucratea loricata P	TUNICATA
Tubularia indivisa P	Sertularia cupressina P	Chaetopterus variopedatus P	Ocenebra erinacea P	Flustra foliacea P	Polyclinum aurantium P