New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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PLEUROBRANCHAEA NOVAEZELANDIAE PREYING ON ACTINIA TENEBROSA

J. R. Ottaway*

Department of Zoology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Abstract In laboratory experiments, Pleurohranchaea novaezelandiae Cheesoman (Mollusca: Gastropoda) readily ate juvenile and adult Actinia tenebrosa Farquhar (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Invertebrate predators such as P. novaezelandiae might effectively determine the lower limit of the zone occupied by A. tenebrosa, by eating those individuals which are found below about low water oil neap tides.

N.Z. Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 11 (./) : 125-30. March 1977
Received 15 December 1975; revision received 16 July 1976.

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