Table 8.8      Abundance of intertidal fauna and percent cover of algae inside quadrats long the transect near Outfall Option 2 in winter 1998

 

Scientific name

Station S1 (0 m)

High Tide

Station S2 (2 m)

Station S3 (4 m)

Station S4 (6 m)

Low Tide

Nodilittorina pyramidalis

6

1

 

 

Nodilittorina millegrana

8

 

 

 

Thais clavigera

 

7

4

1

Acanthopleura japonica

 

 

3

 

Patelloida saccharina

 

 

1

 

Lithophyllum sp.

 

 

 

15%

Corallina pilulifera

 

 

 

20%

Total species richness

 

 

 

7

Total abundance

 

 

 

30