Table 8.10    Abundance of intertidal fauna and percent cover of algae inside quadrats along the transect near Outfall Option 2 in summer 1999

 

Scientific name

Station S1 (0 m)

High Tide

Station S2 (2 m)

Station S3 (4 m)

Station S4 (6 m)

Low Tide

Nodilittorina pyramidalis

16

 

 

 

Nodilittorina millegrana

17

 

 

 

Thais clavigera

 

 

 

6

Acanthopleura japonica

 

2

1

 

Tetraclita sp.

 

17

110

 

Monodonta albio

 

9

1

 

Setifer bilocularis

 

2

 

 

Patelloida saccharina

 

50

 

 

Saccostrea cucullata

 

 

140

100

Nerita albicilla

 

 

 

4

Lunella coronata

 

 

 

6

Lithophyllum sp.

 

 

 

30%

Corallina pilulifera

 

 

 

 

Total species richness

 

 

 

13

Total abundance

 

 

 

474