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Age and Growth of North Sea Echinoids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

A. A. T. Sime  and
G. J. Cranmer
A. A. T. Sime
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Exeter, Hatherly Laboratories, Prince of Wales Road, Exeter EX4 4PS
G. J. Cranmer
Affiliation:
Marine Benthos Laboratory, Luton College of Higher Education, Putteridge Bury, Luton, Bedfordshire LU2 8LE
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The genus Echinus is common throughout the entire northern North Sea. Echinus esculentus L. predominates in the shallow water off the eastern Scottish coast down to 100 m, while the small variety of Echinus acutus var. norvegicus (Düben and Koren) is rarely found in depths of less than 100 m and is most commonly located in the north-eastern area of the North Sea (Cranmer, 1985).

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 65 , Issue 3 , August 1985 , pp. 583 - 588
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1985

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