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Gear Feasibility Study For The Cownose Ray, Rhinoptera Bonasus, J. V. Merriner, J. W. Smith
Gear Feasibility Study For The Cownose Ray, Rhinoptera Bonasus, J. V. Merriner, J. W. Smith
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Description And Occurrence Of Vexillifer Larvae Of Echiodon (Pisces, Carapidae) In The Western North-Atlantic And Notes On Other Carapid Vexillifers, Je Olney, Df Markle
Description And Occurrence Of Vexillifer Larvae Of Echiodon (Pisces, Carapidae) In The Western North-Atlantic And Notes On Other Carapid Vexillifers, Je Olney, Df Markle
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Five hundred twenty-two vexillifers of an unnamed species of the carapid genus Echiodon are reported from ichthyoplankton collections made in the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Middle Atlantic Bight, Sargasso Sea, and Scotian Shelf. These are compared with 36 vexi1lifers and one juvenile of the only other known western Atlantic carapine, Campus ber- I/ludensis, as well as two small unidentified western Atlantic vexillifers, and eight eastern Pacific vexillifers of E. exsiliul/l. Vexillum placement relative to anal-fin origin, myomeres, and vertebral centra appears to be a useful character for separating Echiodon vexillifers from other western Atlantic carapids. The vexillum in Echiodon …
Community Structure Of Fishes On The Continental Slope And Rise Off The Middle Atlantic Coast Of The United States, John A. Musick
Community Structure Of Fishes On The Continental Slope And Rise Off The Middle Atlantic Coast Of The United States, John A. Musick
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Otter trawl cruises were conducted off the middle Atlantic coast of the U. S. from 1971 to 1975. More than 50,000 specimens of demersal fishes were captured during this program at depths of 75 m to 3000 m. Species assemblages were distributed along a coenocline with bathymetric areas of rapid faunal change (anantoclines) and of more gradual faunal change (aganoclines). Between 75 and 3000 m anantoclines were found at 150 to 200 m, 400 to 600 m, 900 to 1000 m, 1350 to 1500 m, and 1900 to 2100 m. Species diversity (Hl) increased between the continental shelf and slope, …