Ophryotrocha maculata Akesson 1973 ...
Ophryotrocha maculata Åkesson, 1973 Material examined: Northern North Atlantic, coastal Skagerrak, 58° 53.1’ N; 11° 06.4’ E. Specimens recovered from minke whale bones in experimental aquarium tanks. Remarks: As with Palpiphitime lobifera this species was abundant on the whale bones. Both species ha...
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5698113 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5698113 |
| Summary: | Ophryotrocha maculata Åkesson, 1973 Material examined: Northern North Atlantic, coastal Skagerrak, 58° 53.1’ N; 11° 06.4’ E. Specimens recovered from minke whale bones in experimental aquarium tanks. Remarks: As with Palpiphitime lobifera this species was abundant on the whale bones. Both species have been described from anthropogenically enriched sediments such as pulp mill discharge. The discovery of dense populations of these two species actively feeding on mat-forming filamentous bacteria at whale falls suggest that they are important species for ecosystem function in terms of the degradation of high molecular weight organic compounds. ... : Published as part of Wiklund, Helena, Glover, Adrian G. & Dahlgren, Thomas G., 2009, Three new species of Ophryotrocha (Annelida: Dorvilleidae) from a whale-fall in the North-East Atlantic, pp. 43-56 in Zootaxa 2228 on page 51, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.190259 ... |
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