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Larval and Post-larval Lima from Plymouth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Marie V. Lebour
Affiliation:
Naturalist at the Plymouth Laboratory.

Extract

Two species of Lima are known from Plymouth: Lima hians (Gmelin), the commonest species, inhabiting small patches of stones with muddy gravel at extreme low-tide mark on the north side of the Breakwater, where many individuals may be found together, and Lima loscombi Sowerby, found on the coarse grounds west of the Eddystone, Rame-Eddystone Grounds, Mewstone Grounds, Stoke Point Grounds and southwest of the Eddystone (see Marine Biological Association, Plymouth Marine Fauna, 1931). The latter is a much smaller species than the former, not so highly coloured, and much rarer. Although it is often difficult to obtain Lima hians, as it is only accessible at very low tides, it occurs in numbers in the locality cited.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1937

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