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The Harpacticoid Copepod Fauna of the River Ythan and Its Estuary, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

David C. Hockin
David C. Hockin
Affiliation:
Culterty Field Station, Department of Zoology, University of Aberdeen, Newburgh, Ellon, Scotland, AB4 0AA
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Harpacticoid copepods (Crustacea) comprise an important taxon of the sedimentdwelling meiofauna, generally being numerically inferior to only the Nematoda (Hulings & Gray, 1971). This paper reports those species comprising the fauna of the sediments of the River Ythan estuary, particularly the intertidal sediments, and describes some of the properties of the meiobenthic copepod community structure.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 62 , Issue 3 , August 1982 , pp. 729 - 736
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1982

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