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(b) New Zealand

Bay of Islands, Bream Head, Poor Knights, Moko Hinau, eastern Coromandel Peninsula, Mayor Island.

29. Rhodophycean community.

Cranwell and Moore, 1938, p. 396.

Vidalia-Melanthalia-Pterocladia lucida assn. (Beveridge and Chapman, 1950, p. 194).

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Fig. 1.—Station 29. Sugar Loat Rocks: Lessonia tarregata laminae exposed at E.L.W.S. Xiphophora chondrophylla vat minus is in the foreground.
Fig. 2.—Station 33. Needles Point, N. E. Great Barriel Island: Zonation in a north face under conditions of maximum wave exposure for the Haraki Gulf region. Sparse growth of Durrillea [ unclear: ] above Carpophyllum clongatum.

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  • Gigartina cranwellae (d).

  • Pterocladia lucida (d).

  • Pachymenia himantophora (ld).

  • Melanthalia abscissa (a).

  • Gymnogongrus nodiferus (la).

  • Sarcodia montagneana (f).

  • Acodes nitidissima (f).

  • Rhodymenia leptophylla (f).

  • Pterocladia capillacea (f).

  • Vidalia colensoi (l).

Vertical Range: From M.L.W.M. to below E.L.W.S.

Occurrence:

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