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Parks Victoria Technical Series No. 79
Flinders and Twofold Shelf Bioregions Marine Natural Values Study
Figure 24. Black urchins Centrostephanus rodgersii and butterfly perch
Caesioperca lepidoptera in Point Hicks Marine National Park. Photo by Mark
Norman Museum of Victoria. ......................................................................................... 56
Figure 25. A school of butterfly perch Caesioperca lepidoptera over a subtidal
reef sponge garden in Point Hicks Marine National Park. Photo by Mark
Norman, Museum of Victoria. ........................................................................................ 57
Figure 26. Featherduster worms Sabellastarte australiensis on subtidal reef in
Point Hicks Marine National Park. Photo by Mark Norman, Museum of
Victoria. ......................................................................................................................... 61
Figure 27. Finger sponges and colonial sea squirt in Point Hicks Marine National
Park. Photo by Mark Norman, Museum of Victoria. ....................................................... 63
Figure 28. Black urchins Centrostephanus rodgersii and yellow zoanthid corals in
Point Hicks Marine National Park. Photo by Mark Norman, Museum of
Victoria. ......................................................................................................................... 64
Figure 29. Castle sponge in Point Hicks Marine National Park. Photo by Mark
Norman, Museum of Victoria. ........................................................................................ 67
Figure 30. Location map of Cape Howe Marine National Park with high
resolution bathymetry. Subtidal reef monitoring sites inside and outside the
MNP are shown, there are no intertidal monitoring sites. ............................................... 70
Figure 31. Aerial view of the coast of Cape Howe Marine National Park (QASCO
20/01/04). Photography ortho-rectified by PIRVic. Figure from Ball and Blake
(2007)............................................................................................................................ 71
Figure 32. Substrate mapping of Cape Howe Marine National Park showing sites
of geological significance. .............................................................................................. 73
Figure 33. Biota mapping of Cape Howe Marine National Park showing sites of
biological significance .................................................................................................... 74
Figure 34. A canopy of the kelp Ecklonia radiata with an understorey of small
algae on a reef in Cape Howe Marine National Park. .................................................... 75
Figure 35. Shell fragment dominated soft sediment and an erect sponge
providing habitat for many invertebrates and fish in 105 m depth in Cape
Howe Marine National Park, one of the deepest known parts of Victorian
coastal waters. .............................................................................................................. 79
Figure 36. A bed of the green algae Caulerpa with encrusted shells on sandy
sediments in Cape Howe Marine National Park. ............................................................ 80
Figure 37. The introduced screw shell Maoricolpus roseus in high densities on
deep soft sediments in Cape Howe Marine National Park. ............................................ 85
Figure 38. An adult cat shark in sponges, sea whips and algae in the Cape Howe
Marine National Park at about 30 m depth..................................................................... 89
Figure 39. Finger sponge, feather stars, zooanthids and butteryfly perch
Caesioperca lepidotera on subtidal reef on Beware Reef Marine Sanctuary.
Photo by Mark Norman Museum of Victoria................................................................... 91
Figure 40. Location map of Beware Reef Marine Sanctuary with bathymetry.
Subtidal reef monitoring sites inside and outside the MS are shown, there are
no intertidal monitoring sites. ......................................................................................... 93
Figure 41. Bathymetry of Beware Reef Marine Sanctuary ................................................... 94
Figure 42. Geological and biotic significant sites near Beware Reef Marine
Sanctuary. ..................................................................................................................... 94
Figure 43. Superb feather hydroid Gymnangium superbum in Beware Reef
Marine Sanctuary. Photo taken by Friends of Beware Reef Marine Sanctuary. ............. 95
Figure 44. Banjo ray Trygonorrhina fasciata on subtidal reef in Beware Reef
Marine Sanctuary. Photo taken by Friends of Beware Reef Marine Sanctuary. ............. 97
Figure 45. Female herring cale Odax cyanomelas in Beware Reef Marine
Sanctuary. Photo taken by Friends of Beware Reef Marine Sanctuary. ......................... 98
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