20080868 Ver 2_I-59 2015 Muddy Ponar Upstream Raw Data Table_20160708

Table 1-59. Numbers of benthic macroinvertebrates collected in each ponar grab sample at the
Muddy Creek upstream station in May 2015.
Species/taxon
Muddy Creek Upstream Samples
1
2
3
4
5
Average
Annelida
Polychaeta
Amphicteis floridus
5
1
1
3
1
2.2
Eteone heteropoda
0
1
0
1
0
0.4
Streblospio benedecti
0
2
6
20
7
7.0
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bezzia/Palpomyia complex
1
0
0
1
1
0.6
Chironomus decorus
28
31
22
40
28
29.8
Tanypus neopunctipennis
4
0
1
1
3
1.8
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Apocorophium louisianum
0
1
0
0
0
02
Apocorophium sp.
0
3
0
0
0
0.6
Ostracoda
Candonidae sp.
0
0
2
1
0
0.6
Cyprideis littoralis
3
0
1
0
1
1,0
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Macoma balthica
2
1
0
2
2
14
Macoma tenta
0
1
2
0
0
0.6
Mytilopsis leucophaeta
1
0
0
0
0
0.2
Gastropoda
Littoridinops sp.
0
0
3
0
0
0.6
Total taxa by sample
44
41
38
69
43
Total abundance = 235
Total taxa present = 13
Shannon -Wiener diversity = 1.39
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