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

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 and abundance (20 species recorded):

Biotope 1	Polinices pulchellus P	ECHINODERMATA	Ophiura albida P	Agonus cataphractus P	Pterothamnion plumula P	Arthrocladia villosa P
CRUSTACEA	Coryphella browni P	Asterias rubens P	Echinocardium cordatum P	RHODOPHYTA	Hypoglossum hypoglossoides P	Desmarestia viridis P
Pagurus bernhardus P	Coryphella lineata P	Acrocnida brachiata P	Oestergrenia digitata P	Plocamium cartilagineum P	Nitophyllum punctatum P	CHLOROPHYTA
MOLLUSCA	Facelina bostoniensis P	Amphiura filiformis P	PISCES	Chylocladia verticillata P	CHROMOPHYTA	Ulva sp. P