THE ORIGIN OF TWO GLACIAL RELICT CRUSTACEANS IN NORTH AMERICA, AS RELATED TO PLEISTOCENE GLACIATION

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Zoology
• Main Author: Ricker, Karl E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1959
• Subjects: Animal Science and Zoology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Arctic; Hudson Bay; Hudson; Foxe Basin; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z59-085; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/z59-085

In North America Mysis relicta and Pontoporeia affinis occur almost exclusively in basins which were part of a proglacial lake during late glacial time. They also occur in arctic brackish waters, and arctic stocks can have served as the origin of all inland continental stocks provided the ice advanc...