PENGUIN HEAD OUTFALL

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Biological Environment

Intertidal: 

• extensive littorinid snail zone; a narrow barnacle zone and a small algal zone.

Subtidal: 

• bubble weed (Phyllospora), cunjevoi (Pyura stolonifera), dwarf kelp (Ecklonia radiata) and turfing algae (Corallina sp and others) at 0 – 5 m; dwarf kelp and coralline algae at 5 – 10m; dwarf kelp, sponges and turfing algae at 10 –15 m; and sponge gardens and kelp at 15 – 20m (TEL 1996a).

Penguin Head

(Peng_6) Last updated June 2000