[Summary of localities and species observed/collected follows]
02/08/1978
Dampier Salt Causeway, on intertidal rocks (c. mangroves Avicennia & v. few Rhizophora) NE (or E end of boat club jetty); Saccostrea forskahlii, S. echinata, ellobiids - dark brown with yellowish conc. stripes, small Plecotrema without large umbilicus - possible P. minuta. Following species found as dead shells- Melampus, Ellobium, Auriculastra-type with radial stripes, Plectrotrema with large umbilicus, Plectrotrema with no umbilicus with punctate striae, large Plectotrema type like Queensland species. Truncatellids - alive & dead, small limpets & acineid[?] - Chris team's subspecies cf, one dead Fossarus "or whatever", no leptamaceans, live ribbed mussels, few dead small mussels.
Withnell Bay, rocky slope to NW of sandy beach; S. cuccullata, S. "forskahlii", Trochus "lineatus", Monodonta labia, Nerita sp., Spiny chiton, Granular chiton, Turbo, Drupa "morula", large yellowish thaid, S. cuccullata. [Sketch of intertidal oyster zone] [reference to observations being continued in "Book 1"]
12/08/1978
Shark Bay
Tapper[?] I; algae in gypsum.
Friday Island; S. cuccullata, commercialis, Chaelomorpha?, Planascids, Monodonta, Brachydontes, Siphonarians, Granular chitons.
Useless Inlet, W side of Tidal Creek entrance; S. commercialis
Heirisson Prong - NW of Friday I, about 500m SW of Heirisson Prong Point; S. commercialis, S. cuccullata.
13/08/1978
[Description of landscape crossed on flight from Shark Bay to Jurien Bay]
05/12/1978
[list of species of seagrass and associated localities]
Halophila ovalis
Boat[?] Passage N., Withnell Bay Point, ML16, ML11C, ML9A, ML10C, ML10D->E, ML9A shore
Halophila decipicus
ML9A shore, ML1E, ML5E, ML9A outer reef slope, ML30C (coral reef)
H. stipulacea
ML9A
H. ovata ?
Withnell Bay, Nth Pt
H. spinulosa (bipinnate)
Lady Nora I. weed flats, ML 10/D->E, Withnell Bay N Shore, ML9A shore
? Halodule wrightii
Withnell Bay Nth Shore, ML9A/shore
Glossophora
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