24 PAPERS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF MARINE BIOLOGY. 



The results are shown in table 3 and in text-figures 6 to 8. 



Table 3. — Number of living coral heads upon each 0} the nine 50-foot squares on Line No. I, 

 across the southeast reef of Maer Island, Murray Islands, Queensland, in October 1013. 

 (See figs. 25 to 27, plate 16.) (For foot-notes see bottom of p. 25.) 



Photo. 



No. 1 



Name of coral. 



Distance (in feet) from the mean high-tide line of the shore. 



375 

 to 



425 



500 

 to 



550 



60 I 



to 

 650 



800 



to 



850 



I OCX) 



to 



1050 



1200 



to 



1250 



1400 

 to 



1450 



1620 



to 



1670 



172s 



to 



1775 



7 



36,37 

 18 



38.39 



48 



31 



28 



26 



27, 30 



29 



21, 22, 



23 



24.25 



17 



42 



33 

 34 

 19 

 20 



47 

 46 



45 



32 



44 



I to 3 



9 to 11 



12, 14 



13.15 



16 

 43 



4 

 40 



35 



Acrhelia horrescens (Dana) 



Acropora (Isopora) palifera (Lamarck) var. 



a Brook 



Acropora (Eumadrepora) hebes (Dana) 



and A. (Eumadrepora) pulchra Brook, 



etc 



Acropora (Rhabdocyathus) murrayensis 



Vaughan 



Acropora (Tylopora) digitifera (Dana). . . 



Astreopora ocellata Bernard 



Coeloseris mayeri Vaughan 



Cyphastrea serailia (Forskal) 



Euphyllia glabrescens (C. and E.) 



Favites abdita (E. and S.) 



Favites virens (Dana) 



Favia pallida (Dana) f. 3 Vaughan 



Favia pallida (Dana) f. 6 Vaughan 



Favia pallida (Dana) f. 4 Vaughan 



Fungia fungites (Linn.) and concinn 



Verrill 



Goniastrea pectinata (Ehr.). 



Goniastrea retiformis (Lamarck) 



Goniopora tenuidens (Quelch) 



Hydnophora microconos (Lamarck). .. . 



Leptastrea purpurea (Dana) var 



Leptoria gracilis (Dana) ". 



Msandra astreiformis (M. Ed. and H.) 



Maeandra drtdalea (E. and S.) 



Montipora sp. aff. informis Bernard. . . . 



Montipora venosa (Ehrenberg) 



Montipora ramosa Bernard. Not found on 

 this reef-flat, but common on the other 

 side of the island. 



Orbicella curta Dana 



Pavona varians Verrill 



Pocillopora bulbosa Ehrenberg 



Porites mayeri Vaughan, 



Porites murrayensis Vaughan, 



Porites australiensis Vaughan, and several 

 other hemispherical or massive and nodu- 

 lar forms 



Porites andrewsi Vaughan 



Psammocora gonagra Klunzinger 



Seriatopora hystrix Dana 



Stylophora pistillata Esper 



Symphyllia nobilis (Dana) 



Number of living coral heads on each 50- 

 foot square 



Number of different species 2 on each square 



Distance of the center of each square, in 



feet, from the mean high-tide line of the 



shore 



45 



4 



13 



1 



2 



32 



17 



47 

 20 



1 



3i 



16 

 6 



5 

 28 



68 

 13 



191 



2 

 13 



32 



1 



22 



1 



22 



47 



7 



371 



62 



96 



129 

 610 



142 



175 



5 



19 

 2 



27 

 1 



232 



973 



236 



400 



no 

 11 



525 



126 

 9 



625 



413 

 13 



825 



529 

 15 



1,025 



962 

 9 



1,225 



1,838 

 18 



.425 



287 



153 



14 



49 

 1 



1 

 1 



7 

 1 

 2 

 6 

 3 



1 



26 



7 



2 

 6 



3 

 2 



3 



1 

 192 



735 



,512 

 26 



1,650 



'4 



3 



23 



2 



96 



1 



1 

 3 



4 



1 



47 



201 

 15 



1,75° 



