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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 (78 species recorded)

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

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