Site 19a
deeper section; Sargassum sp., Corallina.
Site 20A
Reef crest; Corallina, Padima, Sargassium, Tectus
Site 20B
E of 20A on sandy zone; Tectus, Turbinaria, Padina, Sargassum, Codium mamillosum ?, Colpomaena ?, ? Ceramium, ? Laurencia
Site 20C
Sargassum, Codium mamillosum ?, Caulerpa racemosa, Turbinaria, Padina, Siphonocladales ?, Colpomenia, Tectus
Site 30
Seaward side of island opposite cairn; Corallina, Turbinaria, Sargassum ?, Acropora, Ceribroceras[?], Ceramium
Site 29
Reef crest; Caulerpa racemosa
23/08/77
Transect on westernmost reef of Easter Group, detailed description of reef ecology given, species mentioned listed.
Site 11
Reef crest; fucoids
Site 11A
Weedy reef flat; Siphonalas, Ulva, Cladophora
Site 10
Isolated weed patches; few spotted Zoanthids.
Site 10A
"freckled" zone; Halimeda cuneata, Codium galeatum, Ulva, Enteromorpha, Cladophora, Padina, Cystophora, Dicranema or Eucheuma, dead Cassid, Tectus
Site 9
east of 10A; Cymodocea, Posidonia, Cystophora (grevillea), 
Site 17
Patch reef in sand; Caulerpa, C. racemosa
Site 8
Patch reef NE of Site 17; Sargassum, Cystophora, ? Siphonocladiales, large starfish.
24/08/77
Transect between Wooded and Morley Is., detailed description of reef ecology given, species mentioned listed.
Site 46
rock flat - intertidal - inside breakers; Lithothamnion, Ulva, S. cuccullata
Site 45
Channel Pool between Wooded & Morley Islands; S. cuccullata
Site 44A
Weed & Coral zone on NE side of channel pool; Acropora, Turbinaria
Site 44
cerithiids, Conus dorreensis
Site 43
edge of large deep hole to NW of channel below Wooded & Morley Is.; corallia, Cystophora. Padina, Caulerpa, Ostrea, Acropora. Pteria, Chlamys, Hyotissa
25/08/77
Transect A, detailed description of reef ecology given, species mentioned listed.
Site 5
Reef flat (inner), Ulva, Pinna, Tectus
Site 6
Outer Reef flat, brown algae
Site 7
Reef "slope". Sargassum, Cystophora, Turbinaria
Site 7A
Channel bottom; drift algae
Site 7B
Reef crest; dead coral covered by weed.
Site 7C
Reef slope; Ulva, Cladophora, Codium, Turbinaria. Sargassum. Padina, Caulerpa 
Transect D, betweem Helsinki I. & Dingville, description of reef ecology at each site given, species mention listed.
Site 38
Reef slope on E side of offshore reef; Padina, Turbinaria, Sargassum, dolphin.
Site 37
Reef crest; "fat fingers" algae
Site 36
Channel; sand & no algae apart from outliers of offshore reef.
Site 35
Reef flat; Cystophora. Sargassum, Turbinaria.
Site 34
Intertidal reef flat with shallow pools; Pleurobranchs
Site 33
Outer Reef slope; Cystophora
26/08/77
NW of Rat I. detailed description of reef ecology given, species mentioned listed.
Site 40
Patch Reef in sand; Padina, Turbinaria, Sargassum, Cystophora, Cladophora, Codium spongiosum, Caulerpa, Tectus
Transect A
Site 1
Outer Reef flat; Ulva, siphonocladiales
Site 2
Reef flat; Codium, Caulerpa, Ulva
Site 3
Intertidal Notch; Siphaniarians, Acmeids
Site 4
Intertidal Reef notch on SE side of island (in front of CSIRO hut); Ulva, S. cuccullata
Transect D
Site 32
Reef slope
27/08/77
Transect D east of Little Pidgeon Island; detailed description of reef ecology given, species mentioned listed.
Site 24b
Reef slope on W. side of channel; Padina, Sargassum, Cystophora, Turbinaria, Codium spongiosum, Acropora.
Site 24A
Reef Crest; Cladophora, Codium, Caulerpa, Pocillopora, Vallonia, Padina, Sargassum, Cystophora, Turbinaria, Tectus.
Site 23B
Sandy Hole W og Reeftop; Hyotissa, Sargassum, Turbinia, Padina
Site 23A
Reef to W & SW of 23B; brown algae, Hyotissa
Site 23
Broken reef with sandy patches & channels; Cystophora, Codium spongiosum
Site 22
Slope of lagoon; Padina, Sargassum, Cystophora, Siphonocladiales, unidentified species similar to Padina described, perhaps same as at Site 8.
Site 18A
Notch on W side of Little Pidgeon Island; S. cuccullata
Site 18B
Intertidal notch on E side of Little Pidgeon I.; S. cuccullata, siphonarians, Littorinids, Ulva
Site 18C
Reef flat adjacent (S) to jetty on Little Pidgeon I.; Pocillopora, Cystophora, Cystophora-like weed, Turbinaria, Codium spongiosum
Site 18D
Channel beyond jetty at Little Pideon I.; Cladophora
28/08/77
Transect F - Beacon I. to Long I. detailed description of reef ecology given, species mentioned listed.
Site 41A
Intertidal flat; large Epitonium sp., Ulva. Cladophora
Site 41B
Reef flat; two or three types of Lithothamnion, Ulva, Caulerpa racemosa
Site 41C
Subtidal reef slope; Sargassum, Turbinaria, Hyotissa, Anomiids & Chamids, Turbinaria, Pectinids - Cyclopecten
29/08/77
Site W1A
Reef notch on W side of SW corner of West Wallabi I. W1A-i; Melaraphe zone. W1A-ii; Nodilittorina zone. W1A-iii; Yellow-footed Siphonarian zone. W1A-iv; Barnacle-oyster zone, Tetraclita?, S. cuccullata, Siphonarian, brown algae, Lithothamnion. W1A-v; Oyster-barnacle zone, Lithothmanion, Tectus, Bellastraea, Neritaatramentosa, Siphonarians, Dicathais.
Site W1
Reef notch of S side of West Wallabi I. W1-i; Nodilittorina zone, brown algae. W1-ii; Siphonarian zone, brown algae. W1-iii; Barnacle zone, brown algae, Lithothamnion. W1-iv; Barnacle & Tectus zone; Lithothamnion. W1-v; Tectus & Coralline burrowing (worms?) Zone.
Site W2A
LWL Reef Rock flat on S side of West Wallabi Island just E of SW corner; Cystophora, Turbinaria, Sargassum, Lenormandia smithiae.
Site W2B
Deeper pools of Rock flat - same area as W2A; Caulerpa, Sargassum, Cystophora.
Site W13
Extreme southern tip of the seagrass beds [West Wallabi Island?]; Posidonia, Dolabrifera, Tripneustes, Tectus, Cladophora, Colpomenia sinuosa, stomatellids.
Site W14
Weedy Sand flat; Cystophora, Halophila.
30/08/77
Site 41A
Epitonium
E. Point
S. cuccullata, Ulva. Melibe.
31/08/77
Site 33B
Mid part of slope - to N side od sand & coral bank from about 3-17m; fucoids, Cystophora, Caulerpa, Codium, Acropora, Vallonia, Ulva-like weed.
Site 33A
Upper slope on N side of sand & coral bank; Acropora, Sargassum, Turbinaria, Caulerpa, red algae, Acropora, Pteria, Cladophora.
Site 34
Sandy bank on the W side of the the S end of Long Island, Wallabi Group, Houtman Abrolhos; brown & red algae, Cladophora
Site 35A
Similar to 34A, but closer to surface; Cladophora, Caulerpa, Hyotissa, Octopus, pectinids
Site 35B
Slope on the S side of the bar running W from the S end of Long Island; Sargassum, Padina
01/09/77
North end of Long Island
Site A
N lip of Long Island. 1; Melaraphe. 2; Nodilittorina. 3; Oysters, Siphonarian, Nerita atramentosa, Septifer, Barnacles, Lithothamnion, Tetraclita?, Leptonids, Fissurellids, dead Vanikoro
4; Septifer, Red algae or Valonia, Lithophaga, Peanut Worms, Lithothamnion, live Vanikoro tube worms, oysters. 5; Tectus, Lithothamnion. 6; Nodilittorina, Melaraphe, brown algae.
7; Nodilittorina, oysters, brown algae. 8; Oysters, Barnacles, Siphonarian, Lithothamnion, Septifer, Vermelids, Lithophaga, Nodilittorina.
Site B
About 200yds S of Site A, 50yd wide Isthumus of dead coral slabs & rubble no consolidated coral; Oysters
Site C
Across most northerly wide part of island; oysters.
Site D
SW Lake; Caulerpa, Ulva, Austrocochlea, Bembicium
Site E
Saltwater Lake; Ulva. Bembicium, Austrocochlea, crabs, sponge anemones, Caulerpa
Site F
SW Pool; Bembicium, Austrocochlea
Site G
Cliffs; oysters
Site 42A
On same transect as Site 41 on Beacon Island, this site is on West side of Long Island on the intertidal & high sublittoral flat; Ulva, Caulerpa spp, Codium spp, brown algae, fucoids, Cystophora, Sargassum.
Site 42B
Slope down from reef flat at 42A; Padina spp, Sargassum spp, 
Site 37A
Sloping bank, West of the reef crest which extends S from the south lip of Long Island; Turbinaria, Cystophora, Sargassum, Gelidium type algae.
Site 37B
Deeper slope offshore from 37A, to about 6m; Sargassum. Actinodendron.
Site 38
Crest of reef running S from S end of Long Island; plate coral, lithothamnion, brown & red algae, oysters, Sargassum, A. flindersi (octopus), Cladophora, Caulerpa.
Site 39A
Upper part of the reef slope facing onto Gaps Channel outside the reef crest running S from the S tip of Long Island; fucoids.
02/09/77
Little Pidgeon Transect
Site 19A
Top of shallow coral reef in reef area; Cystophora, Turbinaria, brown and red algae, Sargassum.
Site 19B
Deeper sandy area with deeper reef; Padina, Sargassum.
Site 20
Centre of a deepish channel; Acropora, Montipora, Pocillopora, Padina, Sargassum.
Site 26
Reef slope on W side of Shelter Reef into Channel; lots of tall coral - only Padina & Sargassum.
Site 27
Reef crest of W side of Shelter Reef; Acropora, Turbinaria, Valania, Pocillopora, Caulerpa, two types of opisthobranchs [sketched and described]
21/09/77
[following is a list of sites and specimens taken, with more precise species identification[
Wallabi Site 19A
1) listed Cystophora - 2 spp (1 narrow, 1 wide) - might be Sargassum; 2) Caulerpa sp. cf sedoides, but ramuli are waisted - ramuli almost globules (usually sessile); 3) Gelidium sp (on dead coral) 4) "Red Grapes" - unidentifable at present 5; Caulerpa turbinate form cf racemosa - flat on top; 6) "Lithothamnions" - 2 spp - 1 thaloid, 1 spikey; 7) Bryopsis; 8) Codium sp; 
9) Ectocarpoid, brown filiamentous - growing on 10; 10) Green alga - branching - forming network - ?Cladophoropsis, like "Boodleopsis"; 11) Caulerpa racemosa; 12) Gelidium ?; 13) Dictyotales, called Padina in lists, Zonaria sp; 14) cf "Cladophoropsis" on[or?] "Boodleopsis"; 15) Sargassum; 16) Turbinaria gracilis; 17) Vallonia; 18) Lithothamnion on Sargassum leaf, Melobesia; 19 & 20) Lithothamnia
Bombie in Goss Passage  
1) Eucheuma sp. but branches are flattened not tubules 2) tooth edged, red ? genus (large bunch) 3) Sargassum sp 4) Mushroom [?] - flat - fused - with nipple-like gametangia - 2 plants can fuse - grow like mushroom at first. 5) Codium so. cf spongiosum 6) Dictyotales - chewed by animal? 7) Redlike Gelinaria (southern species) 8) cf Dictyota sp. single apical cell. banded c. fertile cells in darker bands. [sketch], plants are male female or tetrasponges 9) Corallines - secrete CaCO3 which encrusts them - flat - rough - Peyssonnelia sp 10) Zonaria with Melobesia (see previous sample) 11) Red on Acropora compare with 3) from 19A. like Pterocladia 12) Mesotrema sp cf elegans netted red.
Site 35A
1) Caulerpa sp cf peltata 2) Gelinaria 3) Caulerpa racemosa 4) Hydroclathrus clathratus - brown bubbles-like net 5) Dictyotales - (dark green [mem]) Dictyota sp (but not banded like 8) from Bombie). 6) Fucoid - piece - fertile portion of 7 7) Caulocystis urifera (fucoid) 8) Monospora (single row of cells between joints) Ectocarpus (v fine) Polysiphonia growing on 6 
9) Turbinaria gracilis 10) Bryopsis with plaugs see 7 of 19A 11) Sargassum 12) Chewed Dictyotales 13) Sargassum - fertile "leaves" on vegetative friends 14) Red grapes - ? Laurencia sp 15) "Laurencia" & Gelidium mixed 16) Gelidium spiny 17) Boodleopsis green-net 18) Dictyosphaeria favulosa - Siphonocladales - allied to Vallonia. 19) Zonaria 20) Mesotrema - orange form - large basal clear portion - very little net. Rhodophyta-Ceriamiales - Fam. Delesseriaceae.
26/09/77
[Follows are a list of species observed/collected at the station sites they were observed at]
Dictyota sp. - Easter 46, S. Side Pelsaert I., Easter 45, Easter 44, Easter 11 Eater 10A; Sargassum spp. - Easter 8, Easter 46 (fertile branch), Easter 43, Easter 43, Abrolhos G12, Easter 45A, Easter 37, Abrolhos GVI (stunted), Abrolhos GVI, S. side of Pelsaert I.; Sargassum sp cf decurrens - S. side of Pelsaert I. 33A,  S. side of Pelsaert I. 45; Cystophyllum muricatum - Easter 11, Easter 44, Easter 43. Abrolhos G12. Easter 45A; Caulocytis urifera - Easter 44, Easter 9, Easter 46, Easter 43, Easter 45A, Easter 10A; Padina - Site 9; Dictyotales - Easter 9; Pachydiction ?paniculatum - Easter 9; Cystophyllum muricatum - Easter 45; Caulocystis urifera - S. side Pelsaert I., Easter 45, Easter 11, Easter 11A; Sargassum spp - Easter Site 11, Easter 33B, Easter 11A, Easter 17, Easter 11; Turbinaria gracilis - 37E, 43E, Ste 45A E., 46E, Easter 11, Sandflat N. of Seal I. Wallabi, 37A WALL, 42A WALL, ? 42B WALL; Pocockiella nigrescens - Easter Site 9, Easter Site 10, Easter Site 11; Dictyotales - 45A, 46, 10A, 11A; Zonaria sp. - Wallabi 19B, 42E, Easter 17, 43, GVI, Abrolhos GXII, 11A; Fam. Zonariae - S. side of Pelsaert I.; Boodleopsis - 45A, 17, 11A; Siphonocladales - Wallabi 37A, Easter 9; Ulva - N of Seal I., 11A, 11, 46, 8, S. side of Pelsaert I; Enteromorpha - 10A, 10A, 11A; Anadyomene brownii - Easter 46; Ectocarpoid - Easter 46 (3 lots); Rhodomeniales Champia - 43, 10A, 10; Laurencia spp? - Easter 9, 11A, 11A, 11, 11A; Laurencia sp B - Wallabi 19B, 46, 33B; 
Laurencia sp. C - 44, 10A, 10, 37A; Laurencia sp. (grapes) - 11, 11A, 8, 8, 45, 43, 42B; Polysiphonia - S. side of Pelsaert I., 46, 17B, 11, 43, 44, 45A, Easter 9; 
Gelidium sp. (-spikey purple red) - 8, GVI, 37A, 19, 33B, 45A, 42A, 42B; Hypnea episcopalis (pastor's crook - hooked end to branches) - Easter 11; Mesotrema (network) - 33B
Callophycus (purple red - serrate edges) - Easter 17; Callophycus (Gelatinous Red) - Site 8; Eucheuma spp. (2 forms - one more stunted & darker red than the other) - Site 8, 37; 
?Eucheuma sp. (long fat fingers) - 8; Cladophora sp. ? volanioides (long streamers) - 17; Ceramium (epiphyte-red) - 17; Hormophysa triquetra - Site 11 Easter, 11A E, S. side of Pelsaert, 45, 45A, 46; ?Laurencia (branched flat serrate) not Callophycus - 17; Gelidium (not spiky species) - Easter 10A; Hydroclathrus clathratus (holes) - Easter 11, 46, Wallabi 42B?, Easter 9, Easter 11A, S. side of Pelsaert; Colpomenia (no holes) - Easter 44, Wallabi 42A, Easter 37; "Gelidium" tough - pointed ends - might be basal parts of spiky Gelidium - 43, Wallabi 42A, Easter 11A, Easter 45A; ?Red Algae? poysiphonous with overlays. plant or animal - v. much mucous when collected, to be recollected! - 41E; Cermiales - not ident. - branched fine red with cross striations - 41E; Dictyosphaerium favulusa, multinucleate invagination from wall - Easter 11A, Easter 17, 11, Wallabi 33B, Easter 45A, Easter 46, N of Seal I., 42A, 8, 9;
Vallonia - Wallabi 43A, 42A, flat N. of Seal Is. Wallabi; Codium - Easter 9; Caulerpa cactoides - Easter 17, Easter 11A, Easter 9, Easter 8; Caulerpa peltata - Site 11, Site 17;
Codium sp sf spongiosum - 17, 33B, 11A, 9, Wallabi 37A, 8; Caulerpa racemosa (like forma cylindracea) - 11, 17, 42, 42B, Wallabi 42A, flat N of Sea I., 8, 8; 
Caulerpa sp cf scalpelliformis - 11, 11, 17, 11A; Caulerpa sp. cf racemosa - Wallabi 42A; Caulerpa (sp cf) sedoides - 11, 17; Caulerpa sp cf sedoides c joint like 2 from 19A - 33B, 46;
Caulerpa simpliciusula (W coast form) - Easter 10A, 11; Caulerpa sp.m hair like ramuli - 11A, 9; Codium sp., tubular - 11A, 10A; Caulerpa sp. with prickly points - Wallabi 11; Green mat,  ?Vaucheriaceae - GV1; Laurencia, red grapes (see above) - W37A, W42B, W42A, E44, E10A, E11A, E11, E17; Jania sp. - E11A, E11, 9, E6. E46, E11 S side of Pelsaert; Metagoniolithon gracile - 11A, 10; Metagoniolithon charoides - 9; Corallina cuvieri - 9; Penecillus nodulosus -10; green - Siphoniae - 6; A Coralline cf Metagoniolithon - 10; A. red., Nemalianales, Liagora deposit mealy sort of CaCO3 on surface - 46; ?Plocamium - 41E; A. Red., purple red, small flat thalli - 8; A. red., dicholomans - E9; Curdiea obesa - 10, 8, 9; Red gelatinous - 11; Red, small jointed fingers - 41E; Rhodomed aceae - 10A; Another Polysiphoniae - 11; ?Another Polysiphoniae -11A; ?Polysiphoniae - 10,11; Ceramiales - 10; Neurymenia fraxinifolia, Red. - GX11; Halimeda cuneata - 11.11A.10A; Fucoid c. green tufts, epiphytic, Sphacelaria - 11A, 45, 11; Bryopsis - 11; Chorderia, Leathesiaceae. ?Cauderia multisiphonous axis c branches. gelatinous brown - 11A; Amphibola antartica - E9; Halophila ovalis - GVI; Dictyota, Red (but Green) - 41E; Metamastophora - 10; Asperococcus bullosus - 10; Red long axis c protuberances - 11A; Red long axis c prickles - 10A; ?Spirida - 11A; ?Struvea - GXII; Spiky Gelidium - 8; Martensia elegans - 8, 41E; ?Martensia; Boodleyopsis, green network, Siphonocladales, 6 segmented siphons - 9, 10A Easter, 11A Easter, 17 Easter, 45A, 19A Wallabi, 27 Wallabi, 37A Wallabi, 35A Wallabi; Dictyotales, Padina - Site 9 Easter; Fam. Zonariae - S. side Pelsaert Is; Pocockiella nigrescens (formerly Gymnosaurus) - Site 9. >2 Easter, 10 1 Easter, 10A Easter, 11 x3 Easter, 11A Easter, 45A Easter, 46 Easter; Zonaria - Site 11A Easter Gp; 17 Easter Gp; 43 Easter Gp; 19A Wallabi Gp; 19B Wallabi Gp; 27 Wallabi Gp; 35A Wallabi Gp; 35B Wallabi Gp;?2sp - 41D x2 Wallabi Gp; 41E Wallabi Gp; Bombie in Goss Chan. 85-100ft, Bombie in Goss Channel 27-42' - GV!, GXII; Colpomenia (no holes) - Site 37 Easter Gp; Colpomenia ?holes - Site 44 Easter Gp, 42A Wallabi Gp; Hydroclathrus clathratus (brown holes) - Site 9 E. group, Site 11 E. group, Site 11A E. group, Site 46 E. group, Site 27 Wallabi Gp, 35A Wallabi Gp, 42B Wallabi Gp, S. side Pelsaert I.; Codium cf sp. mammalosum - Bombie Goss Passage 27'-42'; Codium spongiosum - 7 E, 7C E, Site 8 Easter Gp, Site 7 Easter Gp, Site 9 x 2 Easter Gp, Site 11A Easter Gp, Site 17 Easter Gp, Site 20C Easter Gp, Site 34 Easter Gp, 17A W, 23 W, 24A W, Site 33B Wallabi Gp, Site 27 Wallabi Gp, Site 37A Wallabi Gp, Sandflat N. of Seal I., Bombie in Goss Channel 27-42'; Codium sp. tubular cf muelleri - 10A Easter, 11A East; Cystophyllum muricatum - Site 43 Easter Gp, Site 44x2 Easter Gp, Site 45 Easter Gp, Site 45A Easter Gp, GXII; Dictyota - 35A Wallabi Gp, 35B x2, Bombie in Goss Channel, Pelsaert I, 10A Easter Gp, 11 Easter Gp, 44 Easter Gp, 45 Easter Gp, 46 Easter Gp; Enteromorph, green, 2cells; Gelidium?; Gelidium; Lorensia, tips counter sunk; Chylochadia?; Asperococcus, tubular, multicellular, bown - Site 34 near Hydroclathrus; Microdiction - St 34; Red Asparagopsis, fleshy tube then plumes - W 37A W 2A; Dicranema - Site 5[?]6 E. ; Hypnea - 2A W; Polysiphonieae - 20C E; Cerameales, Polysiphoniae - Site 7E; Leveillea jungermamniodes - W27 x2, W23, 37A, 41B, E - 29[?]30; cf Sargassum cristatum - E 7B; affinity cf S. lacerafolium - 31A; S. decurrans; Pocockiella, dark brown, lots divisions; Zonaria, paler/gold/olive; Padina, white one side.      

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