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Killeany, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19850101/21 Date: 1985-01-01 GPS: 55.29500,-6.22400. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: This is a fucoid dominated boulder shore. The intertidal region is narrow. The supralittoral region is composed of igneous and limestone shingle. The intertidal region is mainly composed of small and medium igneous boulders, with occasional limestone boulders. Rounded limestone and igneous pebbles underly the boulders at all levels in the intertidal.

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Species list (122 species recorded)

PORIFERA	Platynereis coccinea	Jaera sp.	Alcyonidium hirsutum	Acrochaetium secundata	Odonthalia dentata	Fucus spiralis
Clathrina coriacea	Spinther arcticus	Jaera albifrons	Membranipora membranacea	Audouinella sp.	Osmundea pinnatifida	Fucus vesiculosus
Sycon ciliatum	Polydora ciliata	Idotea granulosa	Electra pilosa	Rhodochorton purpureum	Polysiphonia sp.	Himanthalia elongata
Grantia compressa	Fabricia sabella	Ligia oceanica	Callopora lineata	Gelidium sp.	Polysiphonia stricta	CHLOROPHYTA
Halichondria panicea	Pomatoceros triqueter	Cancer pagurus	Scrupocellaria reptans	Gelidium pusillum	CHROMOPHYTA	Monostroma grevillei
Haliclona sp.	Spirorbis sp.	Carcinus maenas	Celleporella hyalina	Palmaria palmata	Ectocarpus fasciculatus	Ulothrix flacca
Laxosuberites sp.	Spirorbis spirorbis	MOLLUSCA	Phaeostachys spinifera	Hildenbrandia rubra	Hincksia hincksiae	Ulothrix speciosa
CNIDARIA	Spirorbis tridentatus	Testudinalia testudinalis	ECHINODERMATA	Corallina officinalis	Laminariocolax tomentosoides	Urospora penicilliformis
Coryne sp.	CRUSTACEA	Patella (Patella) vulgata	Asterias rubens	Lithothamnion glaciale	Pylaiella littoralis	Urospora wormskioldii
Coryne muscoides	Semibalanus balanoides	Patella pellucida	TUNICATA	Phymatolithon lenormandii	Spongonema tomentosum	Blidingia sp.
Dynamena pumila	AMPHIPODA sp.	Littorina (Littorina) littorea	Didemnum sp.	Cystoclonium purpureum	Elachista fucicola	Blidingia minima
Laomedea flexuosa	Apherusa jurinei	Littorina (Neritrema) mariae	Botryllus schlosseri	Dumontia contorta	Elachista scutulata	Enteromorpha sp.
Actinia equina	Gammarellus angulosus	Littorina (Neritrema) neglecta	Botrylloides leachi	Mastocarpus stellatus	Ralfsia sp.	Enteromorpha linza
Urticina felina	Stenothoe monoculoides	Littorina (Neritrema) obtusata	PISCES	Phyllophora pseudoceranoides	Scytosiphon lomentaria	Enteromorpha prolifera
NEMERTEA	Hyale prevostii	Skeneopsis planorbis	Lepadogaster sp.	Ceramium sp.	Leathesia difformis	Chaetomorpha linum
NEMERTEA sp.	Amphithoe rubricata	Onoba (Onoba) semicostata	RHODOPHYTA	Ceramium shuttleworthianum	Alaria esculenta	Cladophora rupestris
ENTOPROCTA	Jassa falcata	Nucella lapillus	Bangia atropurpurea	Halurus flosculosus	Laminaria digitata
Pedicellina cernua	Parajassa pelagica	BRYOZOA	Porphyra insolita	Heterosiphonia plumosa	Laminaria saccharina
ANNELIDA	Caprellidae sp.	Crisia denticulata	Porphyra leucosticta	Hypoglossum hypoglossoides	Halidrys siliquosa
Nereis pelagica	Caprella acanthifera	Alcyonidium gelatinosum	Porphyra linearis	Membranoptera alata	Fucus serratus

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