2.3. Faunal diversity and density
Faunal groups focused on in this study were mudskippers, brachyuran
crabs and gastropods. Mudskippers were identified to
genus using Murdy (1989) and crabs were identified to family using
Ng (1998). The mudskipper genera recorded were Apocryptodon,
Boleophthalmus, Periophthalmus, Periophthalmodon and Oxuderces.
The crab families recorded were Grapsidae and Ocypodidae.
Although the subfamily Sesarminae was recently separated from
Grapsidae, for the purposes of this study it was included in Grapsidae.
Gastropods were not identified to a higher taxonomic separation.
Crab burrows were also used as an indicator in this study,
these were classed as either large (>3 cm) or small (