Citation: Picton, B.E. 1990 The sublittoral communities of Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland. Porcupine Marine Natural History Newsletter 4: 183-186
Number of Pages: 4
Volume Part: 8
Keywords: Antrim, Community, Currents, Fauna, Flora, Habitat, Marine, Mollusca, Northern Ireland, Open Coast, Rathlin Island, Rock, Sublittoral, Survey
Abstract: Paper describes ten sublittoral habitats found around Rathlin Island, the largest island off the Northern Ireland coast and situated about 5 km offshore, north of Ballycastle on the Co. Antrim coast. Both the physical and biotic characteristics of the following communities are briefly given: 1) medium sand community, 2) coarse sand/gravel/mud, 3) very coarse clean stony gravel, 4) coarse clean shell gravel, 5) muddy gravel with boulders - east coast, 6) bedrock and boulder, 7) boulder slopes, 8) vertical bedrock, circalittoral, 9) caves and 10) terraced bedrock.