Other marine invertebrates collected by the diving expedition DAl/98 in the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia

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INTRODUCTION – The Marine Invertebrates Section (MIZ) of the Department of Aquatic Zoology at the Western Australian Museum (WAM) has responsibility for all marine invertebrate phyla except Crustacea, Mollusca and Vennes. On the Woodside Dampier Expedition in October 1998, the groups targeted for thorough systematic collection as detennined by the WAM and which are the responsibility of the MIZ Section, Department of Aquatic Zoology, were: scleractinian corals, sponges, and echinoderms. However, some additional groups for which the MIZ Section has responsibility were collected, principally belonging to the Coelenterata (Table 1). This material was collected in a random manner when time permitted and, therefore, cannot be used as comparative data between stations.