New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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INFAUNAL BENTHIC COMMUNITIES OF THE NEW ZEALAND CONTINENTAL SHELF

D. G. McKnight

New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Wellington

Abstract Seventeen infaunal benthic communities are recognised from sampling on the New Zealand continental shelf and upper continental slope. These are characterised in terms of geographic distribution, substrate and bathymetric range, and commoner infaunal bivalves and echinoderms.

N.Z. Jl mar. Freshwat. Res. 3: 409-44
(Received for publication 20 May 1969)

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