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Cooraghy Bay, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850829/06 Date: 1985-08-29 GPS: 55.28967,-6.26650 [ View map ]

Site Description: Sand and scattered boulders @ 13m. Boulder slope with dense kelp forest from 12m upwards with patches of sand/cobble.

Species list (62 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Steromphala cineraria	Marthasterias glacialis	Coccotylus truncata	Ceramium sp.	Nitophyllum punctatum	Dictyota dichotoma
Halichondria panicea	Calliostoma zizyphinum	TUNICATA	Erythrodermis traillii	Compsothamnion thuyoides	Phycodrys rubens	Laminaria hyperborea
CNIDARIA	Lacuna (Epheria) vincta	Ascidia conchilega	Phyllophora crispa	Halurus flosculosus	Brongniartella byssoides	Laminaria saccharina
Abietinaria abietina	Hinia (Hinia) reticulata	Dendrodoa grossularia	Phyllophora pseudoceranoides	Pterothamnion plumula	Odonthalia dentata	CHLOROPHYTA
Sertularia argentea	BRYOZOA	RHODOPHYTA	Polyides rotundus	Heterosiphonia plumosa	Polysiphonia elongata	Ulva lactuca
Obelia geniculata	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides	Sphaerococcus coronopifolius	Acrosorium venulosum	Polysiphonia stricta	Chaetomorpha melagonium
Actinia equina	Membranipora membranacea	Bonnemaisonia intricata	Gracilaria gracilis	Apoglossum ruscifolium	Pterosiphonia parasitica
Caryophyllia smithii	Electra pilosa	Lithophyllum sp.	Plocamium cartilagineum	Cryptopleura ramosa	Rhodomela confervoides
CRUSTACEA	Parasmittina trispinosa	Rhodophyllis divaricata	Lomentaria clavellosa	Delesseria sanguinea	CHROMOPHYTA
Necora puber	ECHINODERMATA	Dilsea carnosa	Lomentaria orcadensis	Hypoglossum hypoglossoides	Pseudolithoderma extensum
MOLLUSCA	Henricia oculata	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Rhodymenia pseudopalmata	Membranoptera alata	Cutleria

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