Table 2 Average abundance of organisms through the inter-tidal per quadrat area (0.25m2).

Tidal Height

Nematodes: Round worms

Crustacea: Copepods, Amphipods

Protists

Mollusks and Gastropods

Marine mites

Platyhelminthes Flat worms Turbellaria (freeliving)

Other: Potato sponge; Colonial Polychaete; Fucus

Total

low

4.333

1.333

0

0.667

5.667

1

0.667

13.667

mid

8.75

1.25

0

0.75

4.25

0.75

0.75

16.5

high

9.25

1

7.5

3.5

0.75

0

0

22

highest

8.75

1.25

0.25

0.25

0.5

0.25

0

11.25