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The Distribution of Nucula Turgida (Bivalvia: Protobranchia) From Dublin Bay, Ireland, and the Effect of Sediment Organic Content

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

James G. Wilson  and
Colin Shelley
James G. Wilson
Affiliation:
Environmental Sciences Unit, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
Colin Shelley
Affiliation:
Environmental Sciences Unit, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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Recent investigations (Walker & Rees, 1980; Davis & Wilson, 1983b) have shown that the protobranch bivalve Nucula turgida (Leckenby and Marshall) occupies an important niche in the ecology of Dublin Bay, where it is the dominant organism over much of the southern part of the outer bay. This is an area of moderately sorted fine sand (Harris, 1980) with a pelite (silt and clay) fraction of less than 10% and a consequently low percentage of organic matter of around 1% (Davis & Wilson, 1983 b). Trevallion (1965) described the N. turgida habitat as one of firm muddy sand, adding that the animals avoided mud due to their inability to maintain position or feeding and respiratory currents and also avoided gravel due to their inability to burrow in coarse substrates.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 66 , Issue 1 , February 1986 , pp. 119 - 130
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1986

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