Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

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.

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Species list (49 species recorded)

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

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