Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

NW Rue Point, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850829/03 Date: 1985-08-29 GPS: 55.26200,-6.19983 [ View map ]

Site Description: Boulder/cobble plain with pockets of pebbles. Scattered small kelp plants. Dense cover of reds.

Species list and abundance (62 species recorded):

Biotope 1	Kirchenpaueria pinnata P	Membranipora membranacea P	TUNICATA	Rhodophyllis divaricata P	Rhodymenia pseudopalmata P	Polysiphonia stricta P
PORIFERA	Obelia geniculata P	Electra pilosa P	Ascidia mentula P	Dilsea carnosa P	Compsothamnion thuyoides P	CHROMOPHYTA
Sycon ciliatum P	Alcyonium digitatum P	Parasmittina trispinosa P	Botryllus schlosseri P	Halarachnion ligulatum P	Pterothamnion plumula P	Cutleria P
Oscarella sp. P	Urticina eques P	Schizomavella linearis P	PISCES	Metacallophyllis laciniata P	Heterosiphonia plumosa P	Dictyota dichotoma P
Dysidea fragilis P	Caryophyllia smithii P	ECHINODERMATA	Ctenolabrus rupestris P	Kallymenia reniformis P	Apoglossum ruscifolium P	Desmarestia aculeata P
Iophon hyndmani P	MOLLUSCA	Antedon bifida P	RHODOPHYTA	Meredithia microphylla P	Cryptopleura ramosa P	Laminaria hyperborea P
Haliclona sp. P	Calliostoma zizyphinum P	Crossaster papposus P	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides P	Erythrodermis traillii P	Delesseria sanguinea P
CNIDARIA	Limacia clavigera P	Henricia oculata P	Bonnemaisonia intricata P	Schottera nicaeensis P	Nitophyllum punctatum P
Tubularia indivisa P	Coryphella lineata P	Asterias rubens P	Lithophyllum sp. P	Plocamium cartilagineum P	Phycodrys rubens P
Abietinaria abietina P	BRYOZOA	Marthasterias glacialis P	Schmitzia hiscockiana P	Lomentaria orcadensis P	Brongniartella byssoides P
Sertularia argentea P	Alcyonidium diaphanum P	Echinus esculentus P	Calliblepharis ciliata P	Rhodymenia ardissonei P	Odonthalia dentata P

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