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Place name : White Cliffs, Rathlin Island. County : Antrim

Date : 2025-08-01 GPS : 55.29230,-6.23907. Depth : -15.0 to -25.0 m. [ View map ]

Site Description : Circalittoral tide-swept mixed sediment (coarse sand, gravel and cobbles) on a flat seabed, mixed kelps with foliose red algae at shallower depths.

Curled octopus, Eledone cirrhosa, [00:01:39]; Prideaux’s hermit crab, Pagurus Prideaux, [00:03:49]; Free-living Devonshire cup corals, Caryophyllia smithii, [00:04:38]; Common sunstar, Crossaster papposus, [00:05:09]; King scallop, Pecten maximus, [00:05:59]; Candy striped flatworm, Prostheceraeus vittatus, [00:06:33]; Nudibranch, Polycera kernowensis, [00:06:59]; Hedgehog sponge, Polymastia boletiformis, [00:07:11]; Nudibranch, Jorunna artsdatabankia, [00:07:28]; ]; Prideaux’s hermit crab, Pagurus Prideaux, [00:08:18]; Berry wart cress, Sphaerococcus coronopifolius, [00:10:48]

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