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Jaera hopeana, an intertidal isopod new to the British fauna

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

I. Haahtela
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, UniversityCollege of Swansea
E. Naylor
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, UniversityCollege of Swansea

Extract

A long-established population of Jaera hopeana living ectocommensally upon Sphaeroma serratum is described from Wembury. This is a new record for the British fauna and is the northernmost record of a species which is found predominantly in the Mediterranean and Black Sea.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1965

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