Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

N Coast, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850828/02 Date: 1985-08-28 GPS: 55.31367,-6.23983 [ View map ]

Site Description: Near horizonal bedrock with little gullies with occasional boulder. Short kelp stipes and much red algae.

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Species list (72 species recorded)

PORIFERA Dysidea fragilis Caryophyllia smithii Ocenebra erinacea Caberea ellisii Ascidia mentula Calliblepharis ciliata
Pachymatisma johnstonia CNIDARIA ANNELIDA Diaphorodoris luteocincta Cellaria fistulosa Polycarpa pomaria Metacallophyllis laciniata
Stelligera montagui Halecium halecinum Bispira volutacornis Eubranchus tricolor Parasmittina trispinosa Polycarpa scuba Schottera nicaeensis
Stelligera stuposa Abietinaria abietina Pomatoceros triqueter Pododesmus patelliformis ECHINODERMATA Dendrodoa grossularia Plocamium cartilagineum
Raspailia ramosa Sertularella gayi Filograna implexa BRYOZOA Antedon bifida Botryllus schlosseri Rhodymenia ardissonei
Polymastia boletiformis Sertularia argentea CHELICERATA Crisia denticulata Asterias rubens Botrylloides leachi Acrosorium venulosum
Tethya citrina Nemertesia antennina Pycnogonum littorale Crisia eburnea Leptasterias muelleri Pyura tessellata Cryptopleura ramosa
Iophonopsis nigricans Aglaophenia tubulifera CRUSTACEA Alcyonidium diaphanum TUNICATA PISCES Delesseria sanguinea
Hemimycale columella Obelia geniculata Pandalus montagui Electra pilosa Polyclinum aurantium Myoxocephalus scorpius CHROMOPHYTA
Myxilla incrustans Alcyonium digitatum Cancer pagurus Securiflustra securifrons Aplidium nordmanni Chirolophis ascanii Halopteris filicina
Axinella infundibuliformis Urticina felina MOLLUSCA Bugulina flabellata Aplidium punctum RHODOPHYTA Dictyota dichotoma
Haliclona viscosa Corynactis viridis Calliostoma zizyphinum Crisularia plumosa Ascidia conchilega Lithophyllum sp. Laminaria hyperborea

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