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Spawning aggregations and mass movements in subtidal Onchidoris bilamellata (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2008

Thomas Claverie  and
Nicholas A. Kamenos
Thomas Claverie
Affiliation:
University Marine Biological Station Millport (UMBSM), Isle of Cumbrae, KA28 0EG, Scotland, UK
Nicholas A. Kamenos*
Affiliation:
University Marine Biological Station Millport (UMBSM), Isle of Cumbrae, KA28 0EG, Scotland, UK Present address: Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland, UK
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: Nicholas A. Kamenos Department of Geographical and Earth SciencesUniversity of Glasgow Glasgow, G12 8QQ ScotlandUK email: nick.kamenos@ges.gla.ac.uk
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Abstract

Little is known about spawning aggregations in subtidal populations of the nudibranch Onchidoris bilamellata. We provide photographic evidence of the spawning aggregations and associated spawning migrations or mass movements whose occurrence was debated.

Keywords

nudibranchmass movementsspawning aggregationsreproduction
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 88 , Issue 1 , February 2008 , pp. 157 - 159
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2008

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