Larval necrophilia: The odd life cycle of a pandeid hydrozoan in the Weddell Sea shelf
Colonies of an athecate hydroid were found at six stations in the high Antarctic (Weddell Sea) growing on dead specimens of Flabelligera mundata (Annelida, Polychaeta). All living specimens of F. mundata at the same stations were free of epibionts. Transplantation experiments showed that hydropolyps...
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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2003
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/170544 |