Table 8.9      Abundance of intertidal fauna and percent cover of algae inside quadrats along the transect near Outfall Option 2 in spring 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

 

 

 

 

Nodilittorina millegrana

10

 

 

 

Thais clavigera

 

 

 

 

Monodonta albio

3

1

 

 

Nerita albicilla

1

 

 

 

Saccostrea cucullata

 

 

25

 

Acanthopleura japonica

 

1

 

 

Patelloida saccharina

 

8

50

 

Lunella coronata

 

1

 

 

Ulva sp.

 

10%

30%

 

Lithophyllum sp.

 

15%

10%

 

Corallina pilulifera

 

 

5%

10%

Total species richness

 

 

 

12

Total abundance

 

 

 

100