Taupiri Island
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Taupiri Island
Grid reference N02 792 469
Area 3.5 ha
Altitude 0–69 m asl
Ecological units
Grassland on steep coastal hillslope(a)
Coastal shrubland on steep hillslope(b)
Landform/geology
Island of Tangihua Complex basalt.
Vegetation
The island is mainly grassland (Paspalum, Bromus, and Zoysia spp.) (Type (a)), with shrubland (Type (b) consisting of coastal toetoe, knobby clubrush, harakeke and pockets of species like mingimingi and taupata. Ti kouka, pohutukawa, wharangi and tawapou are also present. Eighty plant species have been recorded of which 59 are indigenous.
Significant flora
Tawapou (regionally significant) and coastal mahoe (regionally significant).
Fauna
Birds
Variable oystercatcher (regionally significant), pied shag, black-backed gull, welcome swallow, blackbird and silvereye.
Lizards
North Cape pacific gecko (Gradual Decline).
Landsnails
Delouagapia cordelia (Sparse), Allodiscus wairua (Range Restricted) (status from Marshall and Barker 2008) and Climocella reinga (Range Restricted).
Remains of a threatened Te Paki endemic landsnail Placostylus ambagiosus subsp. recorded in 1990
Non-threatened landsnails
Paracharopa delicatula, Phenacohelix tholoides, Paralaoma caputspinulae, Punctidae sp. 84 and Cochlicopa lubrica.
ther
Around 6 NZ fur seals were sighted at the island in 1990.
Significance
Regeneration of the vegetation of this island would improve its potential as a habitat for threatened and endemic landsnails. Threatened and regionally significant species recorded. This site has no formal protection. Approximately 3.2 ha of this site is within a ‘Less Reduced and Better Protected’ land environment
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 34°28'47"S 172°39'12"E
- Great Island 62 km
- Omaia Island 78 km
- Mangrove Island 79 km
- Paewhenua Island 100 km
- Stephenson Island 115 km
- Moturoa Island 153 km
- Motuarohia Island 161 km
- Moturua Island 162 km
- Urupukapuka Island 164 km
- Manukapua Island 255 km
- Te Werahi Beach 2.5 km
- Columbia Bank / Te Nuku-o-Mourea 6.4 km
- Giant Te Paki Sand Dunes 13 km
- Piwhane/Spirits Bay 15 km
- Paranoa Swamp 17 km
- Ngutukorari Bay 26 km
- Takapaukura/Tom Bowling Bay 29 km
- Kokota / The Sandspit 31 km
- Aupouri Peninsula 37 km
- Ninety Mile Beach 49 km