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Obisium maritimum Leach found at Wembury, near Plymouth, together with its Original Description, and short notes on its Geographical Distribution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 May 2009
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While carrying out a general examination of rock crevices and their fauna, making the best advantage of a specially low tide on March 24th, 1924, at Wembury, near Plymouth, the writer was very pleased to find a single specimen of Obisium maritimum Leach. Several fissures in rocks between high and low tide marks were split open with a hammer and chisel, revealing large numbers of Anurida maritima, together with a Coleopteron, Aepus sp., Acari, and a few Collembola. It was after splitting one such fissure that a single specimen of Obisium maritimum Leach was found in company with Anurida maritima in large numbers, and a few Acari and the Coleopteron. Although a thorough search was made both at the same time and at a later date, no further specimens were found. On splitting the rock the O. maritimum, rushed backwards and forwards in an attempt to conceal itself in some crevice. The particular rock was covered with weed which it was necessary to lift up in order to reveal the crevices, and was situated a few yards from extreme spring low tide mark.
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- Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , March 1925 , pp. 746 - 749
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- Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1925