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Altachuile Bay, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850828/03 Date: 1985-08-28 GPS: 55.30800,-6.21150 [ View map ]

Site Description: Steep boulder slope with some outcrops of bedrock. Dense kelp forest. Heavily silted.

Species list (77 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Halecium halecinum	Polycera quadrilineata	TUNICATA	Calliblepharis ciliata	Rhodymenia pseudopalmata	Odonthalia dentata
Pachymatisma johnstonia	Abietinaria abietina	BRYOZOA	Corella parallelogramma	Rhodophyllis divaricata	Compsothamnion thuyoides	Pterosiphonia parasitica
Stelligera stuposa	Halopteris catharina	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Ascidia mentula	Rhodophyllis werneri	Pterothamnion plumula	CHROMOPHYTA
Polymastia boletiformis	Nemertesia antennina	Membranipora membranacea	Polycarpa pomaria	Dilsea carnosa	Sphondylothamnion multifidum	Cutleria
Polymastia penicillus	Aglaophenia tubulifera	Electra pilosa	Botryllus schlosseri	Halarachnion ligulatum	Heterosiphonia plumosa	Halopteris filicina
Tethya citrina	Obelia geniculata	Bugulina flabellata	PISCES	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Acrosorium venulosum	Dictyopteris polypodioides
Iophon hyndmani	Alcyonium digitatum	Porella compressa	Pollachius pollachius	Kallymenia reniformis	Cryptopleura ramosa	Dictyota dichotoma
Myxilla incrustans	Actinothoe sphyrodeta	Parasmittina trispinosa	Ctenolabrus rupestris	Meredithia microphylla	Delesseria sanguinea	Carpomitra costata
Axinella infundibuliformis	Caryophyllia smithii	ECHINODERMATA	Labrus mixtus	Phyllophora crispa	Hypoglossum hypoglossoides	Laminaria hyperborea
Dysidea fragilis	CRUSTACEA	Antedon bifida	RHODOPHYTA	Schottera nicaeensis	Nitophyllum punctatum
Haliclona sp.	Polybius depurator	Henricia oculata	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides	Plocamium cartilagineum	Phycodrys rubens
CNIDARIA	MOLLUSCA	Asterias rubens	Bonnemaisonia intricata	Lomentaria orcadensis	Radicilingua thysanorhizans
Tubularia indivisa	Polycera faeroensis	Echinus esculentus	Lithophyllum sp.	Rhodymenia ardissonei	Brongniartella byssoides

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