MBDP-NI: Arkill Bay, Rathlin Island.

Arkill Bay, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850905/03 Date: 1985-09-05 GPS: 55.27550,-6.17183 [ View map ]

Site Description: Plain of gravel and small pebbles changing to boulder with occasional outcrops of bedrock. Kelp on boulders.

Species list (54 species recorded)

PORIFERA	ANNELIDA	Parasmittina trispinosa	PISCES	Halarachnion ligulatum	Compsothamnion thuyoides	Polysiphonia elongata
Sycon ciliatum	Sabella pavonina	ECHINODERMATA	Syngnathus acus	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Heterosiphonia plumosa	CHROMOPHYTA
Amphilectus fucorum	CRUSTACEA	Crossaster papposus	RHODOPHYTA	Kallymenia reniformis	Acrosorium venulosum	Dictyota dichotoma
CNIDARIA	Cancer pagurus	Henricia oculata	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides	Erythrodermis traillii	Cryptopleura ramosa	Laminaria hyperborea
Abietinaria abietina	MOLLUSCA	Asterias rubens	Bonnemaisonia intricata	Phyllophora crispa	Delesseria sanguinea	Saccharina latissima
Aglaophenia tubulifera	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Marthasterias glacialis	Ahnfeltia plicata	Stenogramme interrupta	Hypoglossum hypoglossoides
Obelia geniculata	BRYOZOA	Ophiura albida	Lithophyllum sp.	Plocamium cartilagineum	Nitophyllum punctatum
Alcyonium digitatum	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Echinus esculentus	Calliblepharis ciliata	Lomentaria clavellosa	Phycodrys rubens
Actinothoe sphyrodeta	Securiflustra securifrons	TUNICATA	Rhodophyllis divaricata	Lomentaria orcadensis	Brongniartella byssoides
Caryophyllia smithii	Cellaria sinuosa	Corella parallelogramma	Rhodophyllis werneri	Rhodymenia ardissonei	Odonthalia dentata