Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI
Place name : Church Bay, Rathlin. County : Antrim
Date : 2024-06-24 GPS : 55.27483,-6.22451. Depth : -25.0 to -30.0 m. [ View map ]
Site Description : Circaliitoral tide-swept mixed sediment (coarse sand, gravel and cobbles) with erect bryozoans and hydroids; Flustra, Crisia, Crisularia, Nemertesia and Kirchenpaueria.
Horn wrack bryozoan (Flustra foliacea), [00:00:21], Nut crab (Ebalia tuberosa), [00:00:48], Spiny starfish (Marthasterias glacialis), [00:01:34], Bryozoan (Crisularia plumosa) and nudibranch (Thecacera pennigera), [00:02:37], Hydroid (Kirchenpaueria pinnata), [00:02:55], Hydroid (Nemertesia ramosa), [00:03:29], Nudibranch (Eubranchus tricolor), [00:03:46], Hydroid (Aglaophenia tubulifera), [00:04:02], King scallop (Pecten maximus), [00:05:06].
Species list and abundance (36 species recorded):
| CNIDARIA | Tamarisca tamarisca R | Rhizocaulus verticillatus O | MOLLUSCA | Thecacera pennigera O | Crisia eburnea C | Henricia oculata R |
| Halecium muricatum R | Halopteris catharina F | Alcyonium digitatum F | Doto dunnei O | Eubranchus tricolor R | Flustra foliacea F | Marthasterias glacialis O |
| Abietinaria abietina O | Kirchenpaueria pinnata C | Epizoanthus couchii F | Doto hydrallmaniae O | Facelina bostoniensis R | Crisularia plumosa C | Ophiothrix fragilis O |
| Diphasia margareta O | Nemertesia antennina F | CRUSTACEA | Doto lemchei R | Pecten maximus R | Cellaria sinuosa O | RHODOPHYTA |
| Hydrallmania falcata O | Nemertesia ramosa O | Pandalus montagui R | Crimora papillata R | Aequipecten opercularis R | ECHINODERMATA | Phyllophora crispa F |
| Sertularia argentea O | Aglaophenia tubulifera O | Ebalia tuberosa O | Polycera faeroensis R | BRYOZOA | Crossaster papposus R | Heterosiphonia plumosa R |