MBDP-NI: E of Castle Head, Rathlin Island.

E of Castle Head, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850830/04 Date: 1985-08-30 GPS: 55.30750,-6.18833 [ View map ]

Site Description: Flat limestone platform with boulders and patches of cobble/pebble/sand. Dense kelp forest. Thick underflora.

Species list (52 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Dysidea fragilis	ECHINODERMATA	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides	Erythrodermis traillii	Acrosorium venulosum	Cutleria
Sycon ciliatum	CNIDARIA	Henricia oculata	Bonnemaisonia intricata	Phyllophora crispa	Cryptopleura ramosa	Halopteris filicina
Stelligera montagui	Tubularia indivisa	Asterias rubens	Lithophyllum sp.	Phyllophora pseudoceranoides	Delesseria sanguinea	Dictyota dichotoma
Stelligera stuposa	Abietinaria abietina	Marthasterias glacialis	Calliblepharis ciliata	Schottera nicaeensis	Drachiella spectabilis	Laminaria hyperborea
Polymastia boletiformis	Nemertesia antennina	Ophiothrix fragilis	Rhodophyllis divaricata	Plocamium cartilagineum	Nitophyllum punctatum
Iophonopsis nigricans	Obelia geniculata	Echinus esculentus	Dilsea carnosa	Lomentaria orcadensis	Phycodrys rubens
Axinella infundibuliformis	Alcyonium digitatum	TUNICATA	Halarachnion ligulatum	Rhodymenia ardissonei	Brongniartella byssoides
Halichondria panicea	Actinothoe sphyrodeta	Corella parallelogramma	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Compsothamnion thuyoides	Odonthalia dentata
Haliclona viscosa	Caryophyllia smithii	RHODOPHYTA	Kallymenia reniformis	Heterosiphonia plumosa	CHROMOPHYTA