Cephalopod paralarvae and upwelling conditions off Galician waters (NW Spain).

Rocha, F., Guerra, A., Prego, R. and Piatkowski, Uwe (1999) Cephalopod paralarvae and upwelling conditions off Galician waters (NW Spain). Journal of Plankton Research, 21 (1). pp. 21-33. DOI 10.1093/plankt/21.1.21.

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Abstract

A total of 103 cephalopod paralarvae were sampled during June 1995 in Galician waters (NW Spain). Samples were taken with Bongo nets of 300 and 500 <IMG SRC="/math/mu.gif">m mesh size at 48 sampling stations along 10 transverse transects ranging from 80 to 600 m water depth. Paralarvae of loliginid squid were most abundant (40%). The<it>Rhynchoteuthion</it> paralarvae of ommastrephid squid accounted for 25%, whereas sepiolids comprised 23% of the total sample. Octopods were scarce, at only 6.6%. Other cephalopod families accounted for 5%. Sizes of paralarvae ranged from 1.0 to 7.1 mm mantle length. Temperature and salinity distribution showed the presence of an intense upwelling during the survey period. The sampling data obtained before and during the presence of upwelled water off Rias of Pontevedra and Vigo (southern zone) showed that paralarval cephalopod abundance and distribution were closely related to the upwelled Eastern North-Atlantic Central Water (ENACW).

Document Type: Article
Research affiliation: OceanRep > GEOMAR > FB3 Marine Ecology > FB3-EV Marine Evolutionary Ecology
Refereed: Yes
Open Access Journal?: No
Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press
Projects: CephLit
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3496
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Date Deposited: 18 Feb 2008 17:24
Last Modified: 11 Jun 2021 09:41
URI: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/7093

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