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White Cliffs, Church Bay, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850704/03 Date: 1985-07-04 GPS: 55.29167,-6.24550. Depth: -14.0 to -15.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Boulder slope with some outcrop of limestone bedrock.

Species list and abundance (78 species recorded):

PORIFERA	MOLLUSCA	Porania pulvillus P	Ctenolabrus rupestris P	Halarachnion ligulatum P	Compsothamnion thuyoides P	Pterosiphonia parasitica P
Iophon hyndmani P	Steromphala cineraria P	Crossaster papposus P	Labrus bergylta P	Metacallophyllis laciniata P	Pterothamnion plumula P	CHROMOPHYTA
CNIDARIA	Calliostoma zizyphinum P	Henricia oculata P	Pholis gunnellus P	Kallymenia reniformis P	Heterosiphonia plumosa P	Cutleria P
Halecium halecinum P	Aplysia (Pruvotaplysia) punctata P	Asterias rubens P	RHODOPHYTA	Meredithia microphylla P	Acrosorium venulosum P	Halopteris filicina P
Abietinaria abietina P	Acanthodoris pilosa P	Marthasterias glacialis P	Porphyropsis coccinea P	Phyllophora crispa P	Cryptopleura ramosa P	Dictyota dichotoma P
Sertularia argentea P	Pododesmus patelliformis P	Echinus esculentus P	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides P	Phyllophora pseudoceranoides P	Delesseria sanguinea P	Desmarestia aculeata P
Obelia geniculata P	BRYOZOA	TUNICATA	Bonnemaisonia intricata P	Schottera nicaeensis P	Haraldiophyllum bonnemaisonii P	Desmarestia viridis P
Caryophyllia smithii P	Alcyonidium diaphanum P	Clavelina lepadiformis P	Lithophyllum sp. P	Sphaerococcus coronopifolius P	Hypoglossum hypoglossoides P	Laminaria hyperborea P
ANNELIDA	Membranipora membranacea P	Corella parallelogramma P	Cruoria cruoriaeformis P	Plocamium cartilagineum P	Nitophyllum punctatum P	Saccharina latissima P
Chaetopterus variopedatus P	Electra pilosa P	Ascidia mentula P	Calliblepharis ciliata P	Lomentaria clavellosa P	Phycodrys rubens P	Halidrys siliquosa P
CRUSTACEA	Bicellariella ciliata P	Botryllus schlosseri P	Rhodophyllis divaricata P	Lomentaria orcadensis P	Brongniartella byssoides P	CHLOROPHYTA
Homarus gammarus P	Parasmittina trispinosa P	PISCES	Rhodophyllis werneri P	Rhodymenia pseudopalmata P	Odonthalia dentata P	Bryopsis plumosa P
Cancer pagurus P	ECHINODERMATA	Scyliorhinus canicula P	Dilsea carnosa P	Compsothamnion gracillimum P	Polysiphonia stricta P

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