✦ LIBER ✦
Larvae of deep-sea fishes (Stomiatoidea) from Biscayne Bay, Florida, USA, and their ecological significance
✍ Scribed by D. P. Sylva; L. N. Scotton
- Book ID
- 104734874
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1972
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 827 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0025-3162
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✦ Synopsis
Twenty stemiatoid fish larvae (3.t to 21,9 mm) belonging to the genera Bathophilus, Cyclothone, and Stomias were collected in plankton nets from surface waters over depths of 3 to 4 m from Biscayne Bay, Florida, USA. The adults are mesopelagie in the open water of the Florida Current and, therefore, these larvae were presumably advected in parcels of high salinity water into the shallows of Biscayne Bay by winds, tides, or currents. The presence of these larvae suggest that sewage discharged into the Florida Current may be recycling into coastal waters as well as into Biscayne Bay.