Boiling Hole Pond

Landscape:

GPS: 21.4957 S         71.5256 W

Surrounding vegetation:

Water Chemistry

Boiling Hole           Salt flats

Temperature          24 C                       

Salinity (TDS)          44 PPT                    125 PPT (3.5 times the salinity of the ocean). 

Macro Algae and Sea Grass:

  • Batophora

Vertebrae Inventory:

  • Cyprinodons (pupfish: C. variegatus)
  • Flamingos nearby feasting on emerging flies

Invertebrate Inventory:

  • Purple bivalve species (Polymesoda)
  • Battiliaria minima

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