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A study of feeding in Scrobicularia plana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Roger N. Hughes
Roger N. Hughes
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Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Anglesey
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Deposit-feeding by Scrobicularia planaScrobiculariaplana (Da Costa) along the mud surface occurs throughout the period of low tide if the water table remains at the surface. The rate of deposit-feeding is unaffected by the time after emersion at low tide except where excessive drainage prevents feeding along the mud surface, in which case it is possible that animals feed from the sides of their burrows at or below the level of the water table.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 49 , Issue 3 , August 1969 , pp. 805 - 823
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1969

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