Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

East Coast, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850830/01 Date: 1985-08-30 GPS: 55.28983,-6.16983 [ View map ]

Site Description: Shallow slope of limestone & igneous bedrock with boulders at bottom and leading to plain of fine sand.

Species list (84 species recorded)

PORIFERA	CRUSTACEA	Pododesmus patelliformis	Echinus esculentus	Scinaia interrupta	Plocamium cartilagineum	Polysiphonia elongata
Pachymatisma johnstonia	Balanus crenatus	Hiatella arctica	TUNICATA	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides	Lomentaria clavellosa	Polysiphonia stricta
CNIDARIA	Pandalus montagui	BRYOZOA	Clavelina lepadiformis	Bonnemaisonia intricata	Lomentaria orcadensis	Pterosiphonia parasitica
Diphasia rosacea	Homarus gammarus	Crisia denticulata	Polyclinum aurantium	Lithophyllum sp.	Cordylecladia erecta	Rhodomela confervoides
Halopteris catharina	Pagurus prideaux	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Corella parallelogramma	Calliblepharis ciliata	Rhodymenia ardissonei	CHROMOPHYTA
Obelia geniculata	Galathea nexa	Membranipora membranacea	Ascidia conchilega	Rhodophyllis werneri	Compsothamnion thuyoides	Dictyopteris polypodioides
Calliactis palliata	Galathea strigosa	Electra pilosa	Ascidia mentula	Halarachnion ligulatum	Pterothamnion plumula	Dictyota dichotoma
Caryophyllia smithii	Pisidia longicornis	Parasmittina trispinosa	Polycarpa pomaria	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Sphondylothamnion multifidum	Carpomitra costata
SIPUNCULA	Cancer pagurus	ECHINODERMATA	Pyura microcosmus	Kallymenia reniformis	Heterosiphonia plumosa	Arthrocladia villosa
Phascolosoma (Phascolosoma) granulatum	Necora puber	Henricia oculata	Pyura tessellata	Coccotylus truncata	Delesseria sanguinea	Laminaria hyperborea
ANNELIDA	MOLLUSCA	Asterias rubens	PISCES	Erythrodermis traillii	Hypoglossum hypoglossoides	Saccharina latissima
Harmothoe echinopustulata	Diodora graeca	Ophiothrix fragilis	Myoxocephalus scorpius	Phyllophora crispa	Nitophyllum punctatum	Halidrys siliquosa
Harmothoe extenuata	Steromphala cineraria	Ophiura albida	Taurulus bubalis	Phyllophora pseudoceranoides	Brongniartella byssoides
Pomatoceros triqueter	Talochlamys distorta	Psammechinus miliaris	RHODOPHYTA	Sphaerococcus coronopifolius	Odonthalia dentata

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