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Some Aspects of the Reproductive Biology of Actinia Equina [Cnidaria: Anthozoa]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Fu-Shiang Chia  and
M. A. Rostron
Fu-Shiang Chia
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Dove Marine Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Department of Biology, Queen Elizabeth College, University of London
M. A. Rostron
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Dove Marine Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Department of Biology, Queen Elizabeth College, University of London
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Extract

It has been known for a long time that the commonest British sea anemone, Actinia equina L., incubates its young in the gastric cavity (Dalyell, 1848).

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , February 1970 , pp. 253 - 264
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1970

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