A note on Antarctic benthic mollusks collected with a beam-trawl from Breid Bay by the 25th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition

The molluscan specimens sorted out from benthos samples trawled from depths of 310 and 215m in Breid Bay were studied. A single species of Polyplacophora, 7 gastropods, one scaphopod, 6 bivalves and 2 octopod cephalopods were identified. The general compositions of the present collection represents...

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Main Author: Takashi Okutani
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: Tokyo University of Fisheries 1986
Subjects:
Antarctic
Breid Bay
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research
Polar Research
Online Access:https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=1899
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Summary:The molluscan specimens sorted out from benthos samples trawled from depths of 310 and 215m in Breid Bay were studied. A single species of Polyplacophora, 7 gastropods, one scaphopod, 6 bivalves and 2 octopod cephalopods were identified. The general compositions of the present collection represents typical shelf fauna in the Antarctic.

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