Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

W of Derginan Point, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850904/05 Date: 1985-09-04 GPS: 55.30600,-6.27400. Depth: -24.0 to -25.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Boulder slope at the top of cliff with thin kelp forest and dense cover of red algae particulary Delesseria.

Species list (69 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Halichondria panicea	Parazoanthus anguicomus	Electra pilosa	Didemnum sp.	Schottera nicaeensis	Brongniartella byssoides
Pachymatisma johnstonia	Spongosorites calcicola	Actinothoe sphyrodeta	Crisularia plumosa	Ascidia mentula	Plocamium cartilagineum	Odonthalia dentata
Stelligera montagui	Dysidea fragilis	Corynactis viridis	Caberea ellisii	Botryllus schlosseri	Lomentaria orcadensis	CHROMOPHYTA
Stelligera stuposa	Halisarca dujardinii	Caryophyllia smithii	Cellaria fistulosa	RHODOPHYTA	Rhodymenia ardissonei	Dictyopteris polypodioides
Raspailia hispida	Haliclona sp.	CRUSTACEA	ECHINODERMATA	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides	Compsothamnion thuyoides	Dictyota dichotoma
Raspailia ramosa	CNIDARIA	Palinurus elephas	Antedon bifida	Calliblepharis ciliata	Heterosiphonia plumosa	Laminaria hyperborea
Polymastia boletiformis	Abietinaria abietina	Cancer pagurus	Henricia oculata	Rhodophyllis divaricata	Acrosorium venulosum
Suberites carnosus	Nemertesia antennina	MOLLUSCA	Asterias rubens	Rhodophyllis werneri	Apoglossum ruscifolium
Tethya citrina	Aglaophenia tubulifera	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Marthasterias glacialis	Halarachnion ligulatum	Cryptopleura ramosa
Iophon hyndmani	Gymnangium montagui	Okenia nodosa	Echinus esculentus	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Delesseria sanguinea
Myxilla incrustans	Obelia geniculata	BRYOZOA	TUNICATA	Kallymenia reniformis	Drachiella heterocarpa
Axinella infundibuliformis	Alcyonium digitatum	Membranipora membranacea	Polyclinum aurantium	Phyllophora crispa	Phycodrys rubens

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