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On the Occurrence of Jaxea Nocturna (Chiereghin) Nardo off Rame Head, Devon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Ruth Rawlinson
Ruth Rawlinson
Affiliation:
The University, Liverpool
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A single specimen of the rare thalassinid Jaxea nocturna was recently dredged from mud off Rame Head, Devon, by S.S. Salpa on September 3 1937 during the September Vacation Course at the Plymouth Laboratory. Prior to this there are only four records of the adults of this species in waters round the British Isles although they are abundant in the Adriatic Sea. Selbie (1915) summarizes the British records as far as 1914. The first individuals were taken as fragments from the stomachs of gurnards and Pleuronectes cynoglossus captured in the Firth of Clyde near Ailsa Craig (Scott, 1899); the next was from the Irish Sea, in mud, offClogher Head, Co. Louth, at a depth of 32½ fathoms and in 1908 one was taken in Loch Fyne in 34 fathoms. The next record is a single specimen taken by Mr G. A. Stephen on March 26 1936 from the mud two miles south of Rame Head, and at a depth of 24 fathoms. Since September 3 1937 four more have been captured in the same locality, one on September 28 1937 and three on October 6 1937, using a new type of dredge.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , November 1938 , pp. 79 - 81
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1938

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