Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Table of Contents - 1959 - Volume 38, Issue 02  

Research Article

Feeding in nudibranch larvae

T. E. Thompsona1

a1 Marine Biological Station, Port Erin, Isle of Man

No account exists of the mechanism of food collection of nudibranch larvae, and, in fact, it has been considered unlikely that feeding does take place in these forms. Thorson (1946, p. 275) states ‘Nudibranch larvae will normally take no—or only little—food from the plankton’.