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Shirley Slack-Smith : [Field notebook] : Kendrew Island 1974(1) [12/10/1974-04/11/1974]
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12/10/1974-04/11/1974
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Expedition to Kendrew Island to survey Crown of Thorns starfish accompanied by Gerry Allen, Clay Bryce, Margaret Sinclair, Ono Sumadhiharga, BRW, Pat Baker, Bill Currey and Roger [?]. Trip to Kendrew Island delayed until 19/10. Expedition consisted of surveying and collecting Crown of Thorns starfish, and detailed reef transects with descriptions and specimen collection.
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Collection notes follow:
15/10/1974; Back Beach, Dampier: 50+ Onchidium. 16/10/1974; Maitland River: collected 15 spp. fish, 3 spp. gastropod Gyriscus? (planorboid), Succinea, fossil or subfossil Anadara granosa specimens in bank, Camaemids. 17/10/1974; Back Beach, Dampier: Lamellaria, Ovula, Trivias, Sinna, 3 spp nudibranches, Ancilla, Chlamys asperrimus, Euchelus atratus, Liotia, Vanikoro, Diodora, Cerithiids, Polanidids[?], Ellobiids, Nassariids, polychaetes, Ligula, dead psammobiids, long armed brittle stars, buccimids, oysters, Anadara granosa. 18/10/1974; Murex, Ovula tersellata[?], nudibranch. 20/10/1974; Kendrew Island: sponges, bryozoa, colonial anemones, compound ascidians, Lithophaga, Botulopa, burrowing polychaetes, thaids, dead Psammocora (?), Haliotis, Cypraea eglantina and eggs, Corbiculus(?), Pterynotus, Peristernia, Dendrophyllia, Marmarostoma, Vermetids, Tectus, muricid, pyramidellids(?). 21/10/1974; Supralittoral transect on Kendrew Island: littorinid, Leptonids, Septifer, 2 spp. of barnacles - fossula(?), burrowing baranacles, small green opisthobranch like Onchidium, Modiolus. 22/10/1974; collected from shallow and deep pools at Kendrew Island: chitons, barnacles, thaids, lithophagids, Lithothamnium, burrowing mussels, ascidians, favites, Caulerpa, Acropora, Tridacna, Diadema, colonial anemones, Xenia, Hydroids, Chamas, triphorids. 24/10/1974; collected from east side of Kendrew Island: seaweed, algae-covered rocks, Syrinx, live bailer, nudibranches. Collected Crown of Thorns starfish from North Sectors 4-7. 26/10/1974; collected from Western Sectors: Crown of Stars starfish, nudibranches - with detailed descriptions given, Chlamys radula, Chlamys squamosa, "Bubble shells". 28/10/1974; collected Crown of Thorns starfish from Western and North Sectors. 29/10/1974, no collecting but detailed descriptions of some obtained specimens given; oysters, opisthobranches, Gena, Triphara, trachid, nudibranch, Herpetapana[?]-Eucheles and Lamellaria. 30/10/1974; collected Crown of Thorns starfish from Northern Sectors. 31/10/1974; described and collected from reef along part of "Transect 2": algae encrusted rocks. 1/11/1974; described and collected from reef along part of "Transect 2": algae on rocks, Lithophargia, chitons, Thaids. 2/11/1974; described and collected from reef along part of "Transect 2": acropora, Lithothanum, algae, favites, montipora, echinoids, acropora hyacinth, "Chama", Polythoa lithophargia, Pleisiastraea, Pocillipora, Dendrophyllum. 3/11/1974; described and collected from reef along part of "Transect 2": Lithiothanum, lithothagids, green and brown algae, chiton, barnacles, green polychaetes, thaids, Isognomonids, anemonesm Xenia, Chama, Cleidothaeius, Barbatia, Pholads, Lithophaga obesa, Sabellid worms, ascidians, Pocillopora, Marmarastoma argyrostoma, Cryptochiton, Hiatella, Montipora, Favites. Detailed descriptions of some collected specimens ie: nudibranches. 4/11/74 described and collected from reef along part of "Transect 1": Lamellaria -3 species. 
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Expedition to Kendrew Island to survey Crown of Thorns starfish accompanied by Gerry Allen, Clay Bryce, Margaret Sinclair, Ono Sumadhiharga, BRW, Pat Baker, Bill Currey and Roger [?]. Trip to Kendrew Island delayed until 19/10. Expedition consisted of
surveying and collecting Crown of Thorns starfish, and detailed reef transects with descriptions and specimen collection.
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