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Rowes Bay Intertidal Zone
Pallarenda (Including Town Common)
Townsville Shire
 
JCU students studying the reef flat at low tide


 
The emerging intertidal zone at Rowes Bay


 
Colourful sea slug found at Rowes Bay


 
JCU students studying the reef flat at low tide


 
Large brittle star found at Rowes Bay


 
JCU students preparing for the field trip


 
Figure 1. View of Rowes Bay from the Esplanade - near Kissing Point at high tide.

Photo Courtesy of Dr. Gilianne Brodie - James Cook University
 
Figure 2. Students exploring the mangrove forest at Rowes Bay during low tide

Photo Courtesy of Dr. Gilianne Brodie - James Cook University
 
Figure 3a. Rocky shoreline (Rowes Bay) at low tide

Photo Courtesy of Dr. Gilianne Brodie - James Cook University
 
Figure 3b. Rocky shoreline (Kissing Point) showing JCU students calculating tide levels

Photo Courtesy of Dr. Gilianne Brodie - James Cook University
 
Figure 4. Mundy Creek area at high tide

Photo Courtesy of Dr. Gilianne Brodie - James Cook University
 
Figure 5.Muddy sandflats exposed at low tide

Photo Courtesy of Dr. Gilianne Brodie - James Cook University
 
Figure 6. Rubbly reefal areas exposed when the tide is very low

Photo Courtesy of Birdway Australia
 
Figure 7. The mud crab Scylla serrata

Photo Courtesy of Dr. Gilianne Brodie - James Cook University
 
Figure 8. The arboreal mangrove snail Littorina

Photo Courtesy of Dr. Gilianne Brodie - James Cook University
 
Figure 9: Oysters Saccostrea echinata

Photo Courtesy of Dr. Gilianne Brodie - James Cook University
 
Figure 10. The tiny but numerous Nodilittorina snails

Photo Courtesy of Dr. Gilianne Brodie - James Cook University
 
Figure 11a. Seahare Aplysia dactylomela

Photo Courtesy of Dr. Gilianne Brodie - James Cook University
 
Figure 11b. Seahare inking when disturbed

Photo Courtesy of Dr. Gilianne Brodie - James Cook University
 
Figure 12. Feather Star

Photo Courtesy of Dr. Gilianne Brodie - James Cook University
 
Figure 13. The proboscis (feeding organ) of an echiurian worm

Photo Courtesy of Birdway Australia
 
Figure 14. Bivalve Mollusc Periglypta

Photo Courtesy of Dr. Gilianne Brodie - James Cook University
 
Figure 15. Tube dwelling polychaete worm Diapatra

Photo Courtesy of Dr. Gilianne Brodie - James Cook University
 
Figure 16. Unknown sponge

Photo Courtesy of Dr. Gilianne Brodie - James Cook University
 
Figure 17. Nudibranch seaslug Cuthona yamasui

Photo Courtesy of Dr. Gilianne Brodie - James Cook University
 
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