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Volume 83, 1955-56
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(a) Hauraki Gulf

Poorly represented in a few open coast localities by stunted thalli growing among barnacles or acting as sand traps on bare rock. Paucity of growth in

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Fig. 1.—Station 4. Bastion Reet [ unclear: ] engulfed by a dense growth of Pomatoceros coeruleus.
Fig. 2.—Station 5. St. Leonards Point: Rock-boring community of Pholadidea spp. Anchomasa similis and Lathophaga truncata burrowing into soft Wartemata Sandstone

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marked contrast to its vigorous occurrence on the west coast at Piha. (Stations 20, 30, 34.)

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