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.

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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 Laminaria saccharina
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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