The Distribution of Pteropods in the Waters of Eastern Canada and Newfoundland

• Published in: Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
• Main Author: Kerswill, C. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1940
• Subjects: General Medicine; Arctic; Hudson Bay; Canada; Hudson; Belle Isle; Clione limacina; Limacina helicina; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f40-005; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/f40-005

Pteropod collections from several expeditions show both Clione limacina and Limacina helicina in the arctic, Hudson bay and strait, southward to cape Sable, and in the gulf of St. Lawrence, with L. helicina generally more abundant except at the south. L. retroversa, absent in northern collections, was more abundant than the other species from Belle Isle strait to cape Sable, increasing in numbers in the gulf of St. Lawrence in summer.