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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 and abundance (77 species recorded):

Biotope 1	Tubularia indivisa P	Polycera faeroensis P	Echinus esculentus P	Lithophyllum sp. P	Rhodymenia ardissonei P	Brongniartella byssoides P
PORIFERA	Halecium halecinum P	Polycera quadrilineata P	TUNICATA	Calliblepharis ciliata P	Rhodymenia pseudopalmata P	Odonthalia dentata P
Dysidea fragilis P	Abietinaria abietina P	BRYOZOA	Corella parallelogramma P	Rhodophyllis divaricata P	Compsothamnion thuyoides P	Pterosiphonia parasitica P
Pachymatisma johnstonia P	Halopteris catharina P	Alcyonidium diaphanum P	Ascidia mentula P	Rhodophyllis werneri P	Pterothamnion plumula P	CHROMOPHYTA
Axinella infundibuliformis P	Nemertesia antennina P	Membranipora membranacea P	Polycarpa pomaria P	Dilsea carnosa P	Sphondylothamnion multifidum P	Cutleria P
Stelligera stuposa P	Aglaophenia tubulifera P	Electra pilosa P	Botryllus schlosseri P	Halarachnion ligulatum P	Heterosiphonia plumosa P	Halopteris filicina P
Polymastia boletiformis P	Obelia geniculata P	Bugulina flabellata P	PISCES	Metacallophyllis laciniata P	Acrosorium venulosum P	Dictyopteris polypodioides P
Polymastia penicillus P	Alcyonium digitatum P	Porella compressa P	Pollachius pollachius P	Kallymenia reniformis P	Cryptopleura ramosa P	Dictyota dichotoma P
Tethya citrina P	Actinothoe sphyrodeta P	Parasmittina trispinosa P	Ctenolabrus rupestris P	Meredithia microphylla P	Delesseria sanguinea P	Carpomitra costata P
Iophon hyndmani P	Caryophyllia smithii P	ECHINODERMATA	Labrus mixtus P	Phyllophora crispa P	Hypoglossum hypoglossoides P	Laminaria hyperborea P
Myxilla incrustans P	CRUSTACEA	Antedon bifida P	RHODOPHYTA	Schottera nicaeensis P	Nitophyllum punctatum P
Haliclona sp. P	Polybius depurator P	Henricia oculata P	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides P	Plocamium cartilagineum P	Phycodrys rubens P
CNIDARIA	MOLLUSCA	Asterias rubens P	Bonnemaisonia intricata P	Lomentaria orcadensis P	Radicilingua thysanorhizans P

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