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.

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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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