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XXI.—The Swimming and Burrowing Habits of the Amphipod Urothoë marina (Bate)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

E. Emrys Watkin
E. Emrys Watkin
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University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
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The intertidal and shallow-water sands of the coasts of the British Isles contain, in many cases as the dominant amphipod fauna, species of the three genera Haustorius, Urothoë, and Bathyporeia of the family Haustoriidæ, often coexistent in the same habitat and obtainable in the same samples. The swimming and burrowing mechanisms of Haustorius arenarius have been described by Dennell (1933), and I have described (1939) the mechanisms in some species of the genus Bathyporeia. This paper deals mainly with Urothoë marina; no reference is made to the other species of the genus, although U. brevicornis has been examined and found to be similar to U. marina. Since all species of the genus Urothoë are very similar morphologically and live in similar habitats, it may be assumed that the following description of U. marina will apply to them also, but I have had no opportunity of examining the more southern species U. grimaldii or U. pulchella. Crawford (1937) states that the burrowing habits of U. brevicornis and U. grimaldii var. poseidonis are very similar to those of Haustorius.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 60 , Issue 3 , 1940 , pp. 271 - 280
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1940

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