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Virginia Shark Identification Guide, Multispecies Research Group, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

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Illustrated with distribution maps and species characteristics.

Table of Contents:

Atlantic Sharpnose Shark | Bigeye Thresher Shark | Bignose Shark | Blacknose Shark | Blacktip Shark | Blue Shark | Bluntnose Sixgill Shark | Bonnethead Bull Shark | Dusky Shark | Finetooth Shark | Great Hammerhead Shark | Great White Shark | Gulper Shark | Lemon Shark | Longfin Mako Shark | Night Shark | Oceanic Whitetip Shark | Porbeagle | Sandbar Shark | Sand Tiger Shark | Scalloped Hammerhead Shark | Sharpnose Sevengill Shark | Shortfin Mako Shark | Silky Shark | Smooth Dogfish | Smooth Hammerhead Shark | …

Atlas Of Lobster Anatomy And Histology, Jeffrey D. Shields, Robert A. Boyd

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This is a histological atlas of the most common organs and tissues found in the American lobster, Homarus americanus. The atlas contains photomicrographs from histological sections of healthy tissues. The atlas contains pictures of tissues that are readily observed in dissection and several that are commonly affected by diseases. It is not a complete atlas. Several organs are not covered, notably the brain, ventral nerve ganglion, sensory organs, and organs associated with molting.

Internesting Movements Of Loggerhead (Caretta Caretta) Sea Turtles In Virginia, Usa, Katherine L. Mansfield, John A. Musick, Soraya M. Bartol

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Virginia is the northern most nesting region regularly utilized by loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) along the eastern coast of the United States. Along the southern shoreline of Virginia, between two and ten nests have been recorded annually since 1989 within Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge and False Cape State Park. Since 1992, the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) has attached eight satellite transmitters to nesting loggerhead sea turtles in order to monitor their interesting movements and falVwinter migrations. VIMS has tracked the same nesting loggerhead three separate times during the 1993, 1995 and 1997 nesting seasons. This turtle …

Polychaete Key For Chesapeake Bay And Coastal Virginia, Aaron Bartholomew, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

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Polychaetes are a class of annelid worms, generally marine, with more than 10,000 species. Common representatives include the lugworm (Arenicola marina) and the sandworm or clam worm Nereis. Polychaetes are important members of benthic ecosystems, serving as food for other organisms and playing a key role in mixing sediments. This key is designed to help identify polychaete species in Chesapeake Bay and coastal Virginia.

The Phylum Chaetognatha : A Bibliography, Grant C. George

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This bibliography has resulted from an initial suggestion by Sargay Timofeev in the March 1990 newsletter of The Chaetognath Group, whose coordinator (Helga Kapp) further suggested that I be given the task. Both are forgiven. The eventual size of the task was unsuspected at its beginning in the fall of 1990; bibliographies are easily begun but decisions on their limits and conclusion are difficult. I have attempted to include all major and substantive works on the Chaetognatha. The inevitable omissions are inadvertent, although a recognized deficiency of the work lies in an incomplete listing of Russian references; I have included …

Bibliography Of The Monogenetic Trematode Literature Of The World, 1758 To 1982, William J. Hargis Jr., Dennis A. Thoney

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Interest in the monogenean parasites has grown markedly in the last twenty years. To enhance and speed world-wide research activity, we prepared the first edition of this bibliography in 1969. This latest effort is intended to do the same.

Dorsal And Anal Pterygiophore Interdigitation Patterns In Four Species Of Morone (Teleostei, Percichthyidae) : An Aid To Larval Identification, John E. Olney, George C. Grant, Fred E. Schultz, C. Laurence Cooper, John Hageman

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The diagnostic potential of dorsal and anal pterygiophore interdigitation patterns was examined in larval stages of Morone saxatilis, M. chrysops, M. americana and M.mississippiensis. The number and position of pterygiophores relative to interneural spaces 1-6 and 10-13 and interhaemal spaces 12-15 as well as total number of dorsal and anal pterygiophores are characters useful in delimiting larvae of American Morone species. Interdigitation patterns useful in separating M. mississippiensis and M. americana larvae were not found, however these two species may not co-occur.

A Check List Of The Biota Of Lower Chesapeake Bay : With Inclusions From The Upper Bay And The Virginian Sea, Marvin L. Wass

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The biota of Chesapeake Bay seems generally less known than that of New England and much of our West Coast. The present work attempts to mollify this discrepancy. The compilation has been revised and expanded to include plants and vertebrates. Inclusion of creatures not strictly aquatic but which may occasionally found their areas flooded by tidal waters has necessitated subjective declsions of limitation.

Includes:

• Lower Plants
• Wetland and Dune Plants
• Phylum Protozoa
• Free-living Invertebrates (except Protozoa)
• Fishes of Chesapeake Bay and the Adjacent Coastal Plain
• Herptiles of the Maryland and Virginia
• Coastal Plain Birds Dependent on Open Water or Wetlands …

A Study Of The Zooplankton Of Lower Chesapeake Bay : Nsf-Rann Annual Report, 1972, George C. Grant

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Studies of zooplankton are necessary to any broader investigation of aquatic ecosystems. In estuaries such as the Chesapeake Bay, zooplankton function as both detritus feeders. and primary consumers of phytoplankton. Some of them, including chaetognaths, medusae and large copepods, are members of a higher trophic level. The diversity of zooplankton, especially in neiitic areas, contributes to the complexities of' such studies.

The present project was initiated wholly as a result of the interest of the National Science Foundation in Chesapeake Bay and the establishment of the Chesapeake Research Consortium. The design of the research was planned to integrate with ongoing …

Bibliography On The Scyphozoa With Selected References On Hydrozoa And Anthozoa, Dale R. Calder, Harold N. Cones, Edwin B. Joseph

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Our goal in assembling this bibliography has been to bring together literature references on all aspects of scyphozoan research. Compilation was begun in 1967 as a card file of references to publications on the Scyphozoa; selected references to hydrozoan and anthozoan studies that were considered relevant to the study of scyphozoans were included. In 1968, a major research program on the jellyfish of Chesapeake Bay was initiated at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) under Dr. E. B. Joseph, and work on the bibliography became an integral part of the program. In 1969 we began converting the bibliography into …

Bibliography Of The Monogenetic Trematode Literature Of The World, 1758 To 1969, W. J. Hargis Jr., A. R. Lawler, R. Morales-Alamo, D. E. Zwerner

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In preparing this bibliography we have attempted to collect all literature references pertaining to the Monogenea. Accordingly it represents an up-to-date (through September 1969) guide to the literature of these parasites, and is of maximum scope, including not only taxonomic literature but also references to ecological and physiological studies on Monogenea as well as reports of preferred methods of treating infestations of these parasites.

Keys To Virginia Invertebrates, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

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Classification of algae --

• Key to the free-swimming animals of jelly (less Hydromedusa) of Chesapeake Bay / H. Cones
• Key to some Virginia hydroids / D. Calder -- Key to sea anemones of Chesapeake Bay / M. Wass --
• A key to the species of nemerteans of Virginia / W. McCaul --
• Key to the polychaetes of Virginia ... / M. Wass, J. Melvin, and J. Kerwin --
• Key to some marine gastropods of Virginia / J. Kraeuter --
• Key to the pycnogonida of Virginia / J. McCain-
• Key to some groups of crustacea / J. Curtis --
• Key to …