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Hatching Nauplii of Planktonic Calanoid Copepods from Intertidal Estuarine Sediments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

C.L. George  and
J.A. Lindley
C.L. George
Affiliation:
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, Plymouth, PL1 3DH
J.A. Lindley
Affiliation:
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, Plymouth, PL1 3DH
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The dominant planktonic calanoid copepods in inshore and estuarine habitats in northern European waters; the Acartiidae, Centropagidae and Temoridae, produce eggs which survive and can remain dormant in the sediments (Marcus, 1996). Eggs of Eurytemora survived passage through the guts of fish larvae, in contrast with eggs of Pseudocalanus (Conway et al., 1994). Eggs of Paracalanus do not survive in sediments (Marcus, 1991). Lindley (1992) suggested that families within the superfamily Centropagoidea, including Eurytemora but not Paracalanus and Pseudocalanus, produce eggs which remain viable in sediments. Previous work on these eggs has been from subtidal sediments, although Naess (1996) showed that calanoid eggs survived in sediments in seasonally drained fish ponds.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 77 , Issue 3 , August 1997 , pp. 899 - 902
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1997

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