Arctic Sea Ice Faunal Assemblage: First Approach to Description and Source of the Underice Meiofauna

• Main Authors: Carey, Jr., Andrew G., Montagna, Paul A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: InterResearch 1982
• Subjects: Arctic; Stefansson; Stefansson Sound; Beaufort Sea; Sea ice; Alaska; Copepods
• Online Access: http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v8/; https://tamucc-ir.tdl.org/handle/1969.6/86980

The ice meiofaunal assemblage in shallow Stefansson Sound off the northern coast of Alaska included Polychaeta, Nematoda. Rotifera and Crustacea. The crustaceans conlprised calanoid copepods, nauplii, 2 species of harpacticoids (Halectinosoma neglecturn and Pseudobradya sp.) shared with the benthos...