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Growth, Reproduction, Respiration and Carbon Utilization of the Sand-Dwelling Harpacticoid Copepod, Asellopsis Intermedia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Reuben Lasker ,
J. B. J. Wells  and
A. D. McIntyre
Reuben Lasker
Affiliation:
Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Fishery-Oceanography Center, La Jolla, California Research Fellow, Natural History Department, University of Aberdeen 1966-67.
J. B. J. Wells
Affiliation:
Natural History Department, Marischal College, Aberdeen
A. D. McIntyre
Affiliation:
Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen
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The copepod Asellopsis intermedia (T. Scott) is a conspicuous member of the meiobenthos in sand on a small exposed beach at Firemore, in Loch Ewe, Scotland, and is the only species of this genus so far recorded interridally from the area. Length of adults does not exceed 0.65 mm in females and 0.55 mm in males. Although it lives below the sand surface, it is not an interstitial form since it burrows by displacing the sand grains rather than by moving freely in the interstitial spaces.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , February 1970 , pp. 147 - 160
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1970

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