Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Church Bay, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850703/04 Date: 1985-07-03 GPS: 55.28117,-6.20217 [ View map ]

Site Description: Boulder embedded in pebble/sand. Exposed frequently and rather barren. Kelp quite dense; weeds common.

Species list (46 species recorded)

CNIDARIA	Spirorbis sp.	BRYOZOA	Didemnum sp.	Rhodophyllis divaricata	Schottera nicaeensis	Phycodrys rubens
Ectopleura larynx	CRUSTACEA	Crisia eburnea	Polycarpa pomaria	Dilsea carnosa	Plocamium cartilagineum	Brongniartella byssoides
Sarsia sp.	Balanus crenatus	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Botryllus schlosseri	Furcellaria lumbricalis	Rhodymenia pseudopalmata	Odonthalia dentata
Obelia geniculata	Pandalus montagui	Electra pilosa	PISCES	Halarachnion ligulatum	Halurus flosculosus	CHROMOPHYTA
Alcyonium digitatum	Pisidia longicornis	ECHINODERMATA	Scyliorhinus canicula	Chondrus crispus	Pterothamnion plumula	Dictyota dichotoma
Caryophyllia smithii	Polybius depurator	Ophiura albida	RHODOPHYTA	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Heterosiphonia plumosa	Desmarestia aculeata
ANNELIDA	MOLLUSCA	TUNICATA	Lithophyllum sp.	Phyllophora crispa	Cryptopleura ramosa	Laminaria hyperborea
Pomatoceros triqueter	Steromphala cineraria	Aplidium punctum	Calliblepharis ciliata	Phyllophora pseudoceranoides	Delesseria sanguinea	Laminaria saccharina