New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts
THE MORPHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR OF LARVAE OF SOME INTERTIDAL SPONGES
Patricia R. Bergquist
Mary E. Sinclair
Department of Zoology, University of Auckland
Abstract
The morphology, swimming behaviour, settlement preferences and behaviour of five species of Demospongiae are described. The sponges,
Haliclona sp.,
Microciona coccinea, Ophlitaspongia seriata, Mycale macilenta, and
Halichondria moorei, are all common in the intertidal region in the north of New Zealand. The view is put forward that larval behaviour must be interpreted in terms of the known ecological situation of the adult sponge.
N.Z. 31 mar. Freshwat. Res. 2: 426-37
(Received for publication 20 October 1967)
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