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Feeding in nudibranch larvae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

T. E. Thompson
Affiliation:
Marine Biological Station, Port Erin, Isle of Man

Extract

No account exists of the mechanism of food collection of nudibranch larvae, and, in fact, it has been considered unlikely that feeding does take place in these forms. Thorson (1946, p. 275) states ‘Nudibranch larvae will normally take no—or only little—food from the plankton’.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1959

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