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Detailed visual seabed survey at drilling site 7218/11-1

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Theapproxim<strong>at</strong>edistributionof the pot<strong>at</strong>o spongeGeodiais shownin Figure33.<br />

Figure33. Observ<strong>at</strong>ionsof the pot<strong>at</strong>o spongeGeodia<strong>at</strong> Darwin,August,2012.<br />

This obviously is a common species, and occurs acrossalmost all of the <strong>survey</strong> area. We can<br />

thereforeconsiderit asa keyspeciesfor the area,but it is by no meansrare.<br />

Figure34 showsthe observeddistribution of the yellow spongeAplysilla. It appearsto be somewh<strong>at</strong><br />

more p<strong>at</strong>chily distributed than Geodia, but still can be considereda common and typical sponge<br />

speciesfor the area.<br />

<strong>Detailed</strong> <strong>site</strong> <strong>survey</strong> <strong>at</strong> PL531 Darwin<br />

Akvaplan-niva AS Rapport 6051 - 1 41

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