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DISTRIBUTION, POPULATION DYNAMICS, AND PRODUCTION OF THE SUPRABENTHIC MYSID MESOPODOPSIS SLABBERI IN THE MONDEGO ESTUARY, PORTUGAL

DISTRIBUTION, POPULATION DYNAMICS, AND PRODUCTION OF THE SUPRABENTHIC MYSID MESOPODOPSIS SLABBERI... and Mysid shrimps are common motile supra- benthic invertebrates in temperate estuaries (Allen, 1984), and a considerable amount of work on their biology, ecology (Fossa, 1985, 1986; Kaartvedt, 1985, 1986, 1989; Fossa and Brattegard, 1990) and biochemical aspects (Chigbu and Sibley, 1996) has been carried out in recent years. The euryhaline (Greenwood et al., 1989) mysid Mesopodopsis slabberi (van Beneden) is a suprabenthic species that occurs frequently in estuarine systems (Macquart-Moulin, 1965), where it exhibits tidal and diel vertical as well as tidal and seasonal horizontal migrations (Webb and Wooldridge, 1990). Mesopodop- sis slabberi is often the most abundant mysid found in such systems (Wooldridge and Bai- ley, 1982; Wooldridge, 1986; Webb et al., 1987; Greenwood et al., 1989). Moreover, M. slabberi has a wide geographical distribution (Greenwood et al., 1989), with reproduction patterns varying in latitude (Macquart- Moulin, 1965; Sorbe, 1984; Greenwood et al., 1989). This is actually a common phenome- non among peracarids, which may exhibit large intraspecific variations, changing from univoltine to multivoltine life cycles as a function of latitude (Marques et al., 1994). In the south arm of the Mondego estuary, M. slabberi is very abundant and plays an im- portant ecological role (Gonqalves, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Crustacean Biology Brill

DISTRIBUTION, POPULATION DYNAMICS, AND PRODUCTION OF THE SUPRABENTHIC MYSID MESOPODOPSIS SLABBERI IN THE MONDEGO ESTUARY, PORTUGAL

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Brill
Copyright
Copyright 1999 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0278-0372
eISSN
1937-240X
DOI
10.1163/193724099X00088
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Abstract

and Mysid shrimps are common motile supra- benthic invertebrates in temperate estuaries (Allen, 1984), and a considerable amount of work on their biology, ecology (Fossa, 1985, 1986; Kaartvedt, 1985, 1986, 1989; Fossa and Brattegard, 1990) and biochemical aspects (Chigbu and Sibley, 1996) has been carried out in recent years. The euryhaline (Greenwood et al., 1989) mysid Mesopodopsis slabberi (van Beneden) is a suprabenthic species that occurs frequently in estuarine systems (Macquart-Moulin, 1965), where it exhibits tidal and diel vertical as well as tidal and seasonal horizontal migrations (Webb and Wooldridge, 1990). Mesopodop- sis slabberi is often the most abundant mysid found in such systems (Wooldridge and Bai- ley, 1982; Wooldridge, 1986; Webb et al., 1987; Greenwood et al., 1989). Moreover, M. slabberi has a wide geographical distribution (Greenwood et al., 1989), with reproduction patterns varying in latitude (Macquart- Moulin, 1965; Sorbe, 1984; Greenwood et al., 1989). This is actually a common phenome- non among peracarids, which may exhibit large intraspecific variations, changing from univoltine to multivoltine life cycles as a function of latitude (Marques et al., 1994). In the south arm of the Mondego estuary, M. slabberi is very abundant and plays an im- portant ecological role (Gonqalves,

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Journal of Crustacean BiologyBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1999

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