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 of the nine jo-foot squares on Line No. I, 

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

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



Photo. 



No.i 



Name of coral. 



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



375 

 to 

 425 



500 

 to 

 5S0 



600 

 to 

 650 



800 

 to 



850 



1000 



to 



1050 



1200 



to 



1250 



1400 



to 



1450 



1620 



to 

 1670 



172s 



to 



1775 



4> 



7 



36,37 



i8 



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 



1 to 3 



9 to II 



2, 14 



3,15 



16 



43 



4 



40 



35 



Acrhelia horrescens (Dana) 



Acropora (Isopora) palifera (Lamarck) var. 



o Brook 



Acropora (Eumadrepora) hebes (Dana) 



and .\. (Eumadrepora) piilchra Brook, 



etc 



Acropora (Rhabdocyathus) murrayensis 



Vaiighaii 



Acropora (Tylopora) digitifera (Dana). 



Astreopora ocellata Bernard 



Cieluseris 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 concinna 



Verrill 



Goniastrea pectinata (Ehr.). 



Goniastrea retiformis (Lamarck) 



Goniopura tenuidens (Quelch) 



Hydnophora microconos (Lamarck).... 



Leptastrea purpurea (Dana) var 



Leptoria gracilis (Dana) 



Maeandra astreiformis (M. Ed. and H.) 



M:eandra daedalea (E. and S.) 



Montipora sp. aff. informis Bernard 



Montlpora 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* on each square. 



Distance of the center of each square, in 

 feet, from the mean high-tide line of the 

 shore 



45 



4 



13 

 I 



«7 



47 



20 



I 



31 



48 

 16 



5 

 28 



68 

 «3 



191 



13 



32 



I 

 I 



22 



I 

 22 



47 

 7 



371 



32 

 62 



96 



129 

 610 



142 



•75 

 5 

 2 



I 

 12 



232 



973 



236 



287 



153 



14 



49 



I 



I 



I 



7 

 i 



2 

 6 

 3 



I 



26 



7 

 2 

 6 



3 



2 



3 



I 

 192 



735 



400 



110 

 II 



525 



126 

 9 



625 



4«3 

 13 



825 



529 

 15 



1,025 



962 

 9 



1,22s 



1,838 

 18 



1.425 



1,512 

 26 



1,650 



'4 



3 



23 



2 



96 



I 

 I 



3 



4 

 I 



47 



201 

 15 



1,750 



