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

Priority species

Church Bay, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850703/05 Date: 1985-07-03 GPS: 55.28650,-6.20400 [ View map ]

Site Description: Well worked sand bottom with rounded patches of diatoms.

Species list (20 species recorded):

CRUSTACEA
Pagurus bernhardus
MOLLUSCA
Polinices pulchellus
Coryphella browni
Coryphella lineata
Facelina bostoniensis
ECHINODERMATA
Asterias rubens
Acrocnida brachiata
Amphiura filiformis
Ophiura albida
Echinocardium cordatum
Oestergrenia digitata
PISCES
Agonus cataphractus
RHODOPHYTA
Plocamium cartilagineum
Chylocladia verticillata
Pterothamnion plumula
Hypoglossum hypoglossoides
Nitophyllum punctatum
CHROMOPHYTA
Arthrocladia villosa
Desmarestia viridis
CHLOROPHYTA
Ulva sp.

No biotope record.

CRUSTACEA
Pagurus bernhardus P
MOLLUSCA
Polinices pulchellus P
Coryphella browni P
Coryphella lineata P
Facelina bostoniensis P
ECHINODERMATA
Asterias rubens P
Acrocnida brachiata P
Amphiura filiformis P
Ophiura albida P
Echinocardium cordatum P
Oestergrenia digitata P
PISCES
Agonus cataphractus P
RHODOPHYTA
Plocamium cartilagineum P
Chylocladia verticillata P
Pterothamnion plumula P
Hypoglossum hypoglossoides P
Nitophyllum punctatum P
CHROMOPHYTA
Arthrocladia villosa P
Desmarestia viridis P
CHLOROPHYTA
Ulva sp. P