| Title | Deepwater populations of the western Atlantic pearlfish Carapus bermudensis (Ophidiiformes: Carapidae) |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 1992 |
| Authors | Tyler JC, Robins RC, Smith LC, Gilmore GR |
| Journal | Bulletin of Marine Science |
| Volume | 51 |
| Pagination | 218-223 |
| Keywords | Animal distribution - 64010, Cestoda [45100] Holothuroidea [83400] Osteichthyes [85206] Environmental Sciences Ecology, Chordata: general and systematic - Pisces 62800, Ecology: environmental biology - Animal 07512, Ecology: environmental biology - Oceanography 60502, Environmental Sciences Ecology Marine Ecology Parasitology Systematics and Taxonomy Platyhelminthes Helminthes Invertebrata Animalia Echinodermata Invertebrata Animalia Pisces Vertebrata Chordata Animalia 07508, experiment, Invertebrata: comparative, Parasitology - General 62510 |
| Abstract | During operations of the Johnson SEA-LINK submersible in the Lesser Antilles in 1989 and off Belize and Mexico in 1990, we collected sea cucumbers at depths between 45-235 m. Examinations revealed a high incidence of tenuis larvae and exceptionally large and deeply pigmented adult pearlfish in Holothuria lentiginosa and Eostichopus arnesoni.
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