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WILLIAM MACNAE
FIG. 7. Mosaic of air photographs of a large area of mangrove forest in northern
Moqambique, an almost unexploited forest. (1) A bare area between E.H.W. and
H.W.M.O.S.T. covered by blue-green algae and occasional clumps of halophytes ;
(2) bare area below H.W.M.O.S.T. colonized by Uca universa; (3) Avicennia
parkland with Uca lactea f. annulipes, Sesarma eulimene, S. ortmanni and Cerithidea
decollata ; (4) Forest of Avicennia marina with Sesarma meinerti and S. guttatum ;
( 5 ) thickets of Ceriops tagal and/or forest of Bruguiera gymnorhiza with Sesarma
guttatum, S. meinerti and S . smithii; (6) forest of Rhizophora mucronata; (7) mixed
forest of R. mucronata, Sonneratia alba, Avicennia marina and Bruguiera gymnorhiza
(in that order of abundance) with Upogebia sp., AZpheus sp. and mud-skippers;
(8) seaward fringe of Sonneratia alba. (By courtesy of the Secretary for Lands,
Mogambique.)
WILLIAM MACNAE
FIG. 7. Mosaic of air photographs of a large area of mangrove forest in northern
Moqambique, an almost unexploited forest. (1) A bare area between E.H.W. and
H.W.M.O.S.T. covered by blue-green algae and occasional clumps of halophytes ;
(2) bare area below H.W.M.O.S.T. colonized by Uca universa; (3) Avicennia
parkland with Uca lactea f. annulipes, Sesarma eulimene, S. ortmanni and Cerithidea
decollata ; (4) Forest of Avicennia marina with Sesarma meinerti and S. guttatum ;
( 5 ) thickets of Ceriops tagal and/or forest of Bruguiera gymnorhiza with Sesarma
guttatum, S. meinerti and S . smithii; (6) forest of Rhizophora mucronata; (7) mixed
forest of R. mucronata, Sonneratia alba, Avicennia marina and Bruguiera gymnorhiza
(in that order of abundance) with Upogebia sp., AZpheus sp. and mud-skippers;
(8) seaward fringe of Sonneratia alba. (By courtesy of the Secretary for Lands,
Mogambique.)