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 31O and 215m in Breid Bay were studied. A single species of Polyplacephora, 7 gastropods, one scaphopod, 6 bivales and 2 octopod cephalopods were identified. The general compositions of the present cotlection represents t...

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Main Author: Okutani, Takashi
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Kokuritsu Kyokuchi Kenkyūsho (Tokio) 1986
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Online Access:https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/34204/
https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/34204/8/1040.pdf
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Summary:The molluscan specimens sorted out from benthos samples trawled from depths of 31O and 215m in Breid Bay were studied. A single species of Polyplacephora, 7 gastropods, one scaphopod, 6 bivales and 2 octopod cephalopods were identified. The general compositions of the present cotlection represents typical shelf fauna in the Antarctic