Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Portandoon, Rathlin Island.

[Site list for year 1986]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19860916/21 Date: 1986-09-16 GPS: 55.29627,-6.28251. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: An exposed steep rock site at the base of a basalt cliff promontory. Some small outcrops occur forming small sheltered areas in the sublittoral fringe. The intertidal/littoral region is extended due to wave action causing a high splash zone up the cliff. Hydropunctaria maura (originally recorded as Verrucaria maura) is abundant throughout the mid upper shores and throughout the splash zone with encrusting algae (non and calcareous) having near total cover in the lower shore. Position corrected to 55.29627,-6.28251, original inland.

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