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The seasonal abundance of four species of Stauromedusae (Coelenterata: Scyphomedusae) at Plymouth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

P. G. Corbin
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth

Extract

Annual population changes of four species of Stauromedusae at Plymouth are described. Three of these, Haliclystus auricula, Lucernariopsis campanulata and L. cruxmelitensis, have one generation in a year; Craterolophus convolvulus has two. The completion of the life-cycle of the four Plymouth species within a year is in agreement with Berril's (1962) studies of three species on the west Atlantic coast and with a reinterpretation of Sars's (1846) observations on Lucernaria quadricomis on the coast of Norway.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1979

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