MBDP-NI: Church Bay, Rathlin

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 : Circalittoral tide-swept mixed sediment (coarse sand, gravel and cobbles) on flat seabed with erect bryozoans and hydroids; Flustra, Crisia, Crisularia, Nemertesia and Kirchenpaueria. Upper infralittoral, moderate tidal streams and exposed to the Atlantic Ocean.

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 (36 species recorded):

Biotope 1 : Circalittoral mixed sediment.

CNIDARIA
Halecium muricatum R
Abietinaria abietina O
Diphasia margareta O
Hydrallmania falcata O
Sertularia argentea O
Tamarisca tamarisca R
Halopteris catharina F
Kirchenpaueria pinnata C
Nemertesia antennina F
Nemertesia ramosa O
Aglaophenia tubulifera O
Rhizocaulus verticillatus O
Alcyonium digitatum F
Epizoanthus couchii F
CRUSTACEA
Pandalus montagui R
Ebalia tuberosa O
MOLLUSCA
Doto dunnei O
Doto hydrallmaniae O
Doto lemchei R
Crimora papillata R
Polycera faeroensis R
Thecacera pennigera O
Eubranchus tricolor R
Facelina bostoniensis R
Pecten maximus R
Aequipecten opercularis R
BRYOZOA
Crisia eburnea C
Flustra foliacea F
Crisularia plumosa C
Cellaria sinuosa O
ECHINODERMATA
Crossaster papposus R
Henricia oculata R
Marthasterias glacialis O
Ophiothrix fragilis O
RHODOPHYTA
Phyllophora crispa F
Heterosiphonia plumosa R

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