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A quantitative study of the polychaete fauna of certain fine deposits in Plymouth Sound

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

P. E. Gibbs
P. E. Gibbs
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The Plymouth Laboratory
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Results of quantitative surveys of the polychaete fauna of certain fine deposits within Plymouth Sound, comprising a total of forty-eight species, are presented. The juvenile stages of certain species are described and sixteen species that have not been found previously in the area are recorded.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , May 1969 , pp. 311 - 326
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1969

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