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A temporarily planktonic terebellid polychaete

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2003

Wilfried Westheide
Wilfried Westheide
Affiliation:
Spezielle Zoologie, FB 5, University of Osnabrück, D-49069 Osnabrück, Germany
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Abstract

Mass swarming of a basically sessile terebellid polychaete was observed in the free water column off the south-west coast of Madagascar. Specimens are described and tentatively identified as Loimiamedusa (Savigny, 1818). Swimming behaviour is documented and the phenomenon is discussed as a flight reaction to an environmental disturbance event.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 83 , Issue 4 , August 2003 , pp. 771 - 774
Copyright
2003 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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