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Salinity Preference in Corophium Volutator

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Donald S. McLusky
Donald S. McLusky
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, The University, Stirling, xsScotland
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It has been suggested (McLusky, 1968 a) that migrations of Corophium volutator (Pallas) may occur in response to salinity. This suggestion was based on distributional evidence from the estuary of the River Ythan, Aberdeenshire, and assumed that the animals are able to detect salinity and exhibit a behavioural response to it. The presence and nature of such a response has been investigated by means of choice experiments. Burrowing, swimming and feeding behaviour of C. volutator have been studied by Meadows & Reid (1966) and Morgan (1965).

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , August 1970 , pp. 747 - 752
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1970

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