scholarly journals Pitviper Scavenging at the Intertidal Zone: An Evolutionary Scenario for Invasion of the Sea

BioScience ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 58 (10) ◽  
pp. 947-955 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harvey B. Lillywhite ◽  
Coleman M. Sheehy ◽  
Frederic Zaidan
Keyword(s):  
Intertidal Zone ◽  
Evolutionary Scenario

The ultrastructure of the abdominal musculature of an orchestid amphipod

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 464-465
Author(s):  
Martin A. Levin ◽  
Lisa L. Cale ◽  
Valerie Lynch-Holm
Keyword(s):  
Intertidal Zone ◽  
High Water ◽  
Abdominal Muscles ◽  
Abdominal Musculature ◽  
Dorsal Muscle ◽  
High Water Mark ◽  
Thoracic Legs ◽  
Orchestia Cavimana

Orchestia is a genus of amphipod in the crustacean class Malacostraca. The order Amphipoda contains over 6000 species commonly called side swimmers, scuds and beach fleas(1). Most are marine bottom-dwellers utilizing their thoracic legs and posterior abdominal uropods for walking, crawling and swimming. However, some, like those in the genera Orchestia and Hyale are semiterrestrial. These amphipods, commonly referred to as “beach fleas,' “beach hoppers” or “sand fleas” can hop vigorously for great distances (up to 50 times their length) by extending their abdomens and telsons against the sand(2).In our study, the ultrastructure of the dorsal muscle cord of Orchestia grillus was examined. Vogel(3) described the abdominal muscles of Orchestia cavimana as consisting of two groups of muscles: a strong, complex, dorsal muscle cord used mainly for hopping and a group of weaker, ventral, longitudinal and oblique muscles.The specimens were collected in clumps of decaying seaweed and other detritus from the intertidal zone near the high water mark at Avery Point Beach, Connecticut.

Influence of coralline algae on biodiversity of macrobenthic community in intertidal zone of Nanji Islands

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tang Yanbin ◽  
Liao Yibo ◽  
Shou Lu ◽  
Zeng Jiangning ◽  
Gao Aigen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intertidal Zone ◽  
Macrobenthic Community ◽  
Coralline Algae ◽  
Nanji Islands

Species diversity of macrobenthos in the rocky intertidal zone of Yushan Island

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 511-518
Author(s):  
Jiao Haifeng ◽  
Peng Xiaoming ◽  
You Zhongjie ◽  
Shi Huixiong ◽  
Lou Zhijun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Species Diversity ◽  
Intertidal Zone ◽  
Rocky Intertidal ◽  
Rocky Intertidal Zone

The Riddle of the Sands

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Brayton
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Zone ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Intertidal Zone ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Narrative Fiction ◽  
Aesthetic Appeal ◽  
Secret Service ◽  
German Coast ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Modern Nation State

The aesthetic appeal of coasts is due in part to the indeterminacy of the intertidal zone. The imagination finds room to play where land and sea meet. This chapter explores the coastal zone that lies at the heart of a novel considered by many to be the first modern spy thriller, Erskine Childers’s The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service. Childers develops the notion of coastal indeterminacy as a figure for the boundaries, ambitions, and limitations of the modern nation-state. The journey of Childers’s characters through a north Atlantic archipelago that extends from the German coast draws a line of association between Europe and Britain, whose form depends on coastlines, estuaries, and shallows. In following this course, Childers creates a narrative fiction that shifts between charts, borders, and languages.

Phoronida

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Larval Stage ◽  
Intertidal Zone ◽  
Marine Invertebrates ◽  
Tree Of Life ◽  
General Morphology ◽  
Family Level ◽  
Planktonic Larval Stage

This chapter describes the taxonomy of Phoronida, a small group of exclusively marine invertebrates found in most of the world's oceans from the intertidal zone to about 400 metres depth. Phoronids are meroplanktonic with a planktonic larval stage usually less than 2 mm in length and a benthic adult whose length ranges from a few cm up to 50 cm. The chapter covers their life cycle, ecology, and general morphology. It includes a section that indicates the systematic placement of the taxon described within the tree of life, and lists the key marine representative illustrated in the chapter (usually to genus or family level). This section also provides information on the taxonomic authorities responsible for the classification adopted, recent changes which might have occurred, and lists relevant taxonomic sources.

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