This checklist is of preliminary form with the hope
that this will be a beginning for a more complete annotated
list of the fauna and flora of this region.
In many cases, this list is quite obviously incomplete,
such as the algae, for which there are many species
found on the Port Aransas jetties which have not
been reported in a formal publication. Further work on
the taxonomy or the biota of this region will gradually
fill the incomplete gaps, and the resulting list should
then prove quite beneficial to field investigators in this
area.
The arrangement or this list is phylogenetic, with
reference for each species indicated by the number of each
reference.Marine Scienc
