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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.

Nudibranch & spawn, Crimora papillata, [00:00:03]; Dragonet, Callionymus sp., [00:00:14]; Curled octopus, Eledone cirrhosa, [00:00:34]; Candy striped flatworms, Prostheceraeus vittatus, [00:01:11]; King scallop, Pecten maximus, [00:1:33]; Nudibranch, Okenia elegans, [00:01:49]; Hedgehog sponge, Polymastia boletiformis, [00:01:55]; Small spotted catshark, Scyliorhinus canicular, [00:02:33]; Velvet swimming crab, Necora puber, [00:03:19]; Devonshire cup coral, Caryophyllia smithii, [00:03:43]; Cuckoo wrasse, Labrus mixtus, [00:04:20]

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