Attachment and feeding of pelagic copepods on larvacean houses |
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Authors: | Susumu Ohtsuka Nobutaka Kubo Masaki Okada Kenji Gushima |
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Affiliation: | (1) Faculty of Applied Biological Science, Hiroshima University, 4-4, Kagamiyama 1-chome, 724 Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan;(2) Present address: Fisheries Laboratory, Hiroshima University, 1294 Takehara-cho, Takehara, 725 Hiroshima, Japan |
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Abstract: | The attachment and feeding of pelagic copepods on discarded and occupied oikopleurid larvacean houses were investigated from May 1989 to August 1991 at an offshore station in the Nansei Islands, which is strongly influenced by the Kuroshio Current, and an inshore station in the central Seto Inland Sea.Oncaea spp.,Microsetella norvegica, and other calanoid and cyclopoid copepods were found attached onto discarded and occupied houses throughout the year at the offshore station, whereas neither discarded nor occupied houses, carried copepods at the inshore station at any time. The feeding behavior ofOncaea sp. in a discarded house was observed with a video tape recorder system. |
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