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Salinity variation in interstitial water of sand at Kames Bay, Millport, with reference to the distribution of Nereis diversicolor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Ralph I. Smith
Ralph I. Smith
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Department of Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California
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The sheltered beach of Kames Bay, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland has been the scene of several important studies on intertidal zonation (Stephen, 1929; Elmhirst, 1931; Watkin, 1942). The last paper is most comprehensive and records in detail the zonation of over twenty species of animals. In the course of the present study I have found Watkin's account very accurate, but incomplete in respect to salinity variation in the interstitial water of the sands. My attention was initially directed to Kames Bay in a search for a population of Nereis diversicolor O. F. Müller inhabitating an essentially ‘marine’ environment in respect to salinity. The suitability of Kames Bay was suggested by a statement of Watkin (1942, p. 558):

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , February 1955 , pp. 33 - 46
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1955

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