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Nawiliwili Small Boat Harbor

    



Latitude: 21 57 00 N

Longitude: 159 21 36 W

Island: Kauai

Location: South-West coast

Description: Due to its protective design, water exchange at this locality is extremely limited thus making it an unsuitable habitat for most forms of reef algae. Some larger forms were found near the inlet to the harbor but the hulls of vessels anchored in the harbor proper yielded only small algae such as Polysiphonia.

Freshwater Inputs: The Huleia river flows directly into Nawiliwili harbor.

Turbidity: < 1 m

Nutrients:

Collection Dates: 04.May.2000; 13.Aug.2000; 17.Jan.2001; 26.Apr.2001

Samples: Samples collected along shoreline, inner walls and the hulls of vessels.

Invasive Species Collected:
Acanthophora spicifera (Vahl) Børgesen
Cladophora laetevirens (Dillwyn) Kütz.
Enteromorpha flexuosa (Wulfen) J.Agardh
Hincksia mitchelliae (Harvey) Silva
Hypnea spinella (C.Agardh) Kütz.


All Species Collected:
Acanthophora spicifera
Acrochaetium microscopicum
Acrochaetium seriatum
Aglaothamnion boergesenii
Ahnfeltiopsis concinna
Ahnfeltiopsis divaricata
Antithamnionella breviramosa
Centroceras clavulatum
Ceramium flaccidum
Ceramium hanaense
Ceramium punctiforme
Chaetomorpha antennina
Chondria
Cladophora laetevirens
Cladophora luxurians
Dictyota ceylanica
Enteromorpha flexuosa
Enteromorpha intestinalis
Gelidiopsis intricata
Hincksia mitchelliae
Hypnea spinella
Jania adhaerens
Jania pumila
Neosiphonia tongatensis
Pterocladiella
Sphacelaria novae-hollandiae
Spyridia filamentosa
Taenioma perpusillum
Ululania stellata