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The biology ofAsterias rubens L. IV. Variation in the sex ratio

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

H. G. Vevers
Affiliation:
Zoologist at the Plymouth Laboratory

Extract

There are few records in the literature of the relative proportions of the sexes in natural populations of echinoderms, and the samples studied have mostly been small. Selenka (1867) has stated that in Holothurians in general males are rarer than females, and Becher (1907) found that males were very rare in Rhabdomolgus ruber. Koehler (1907) noted that in the ophiuroidOphiacantha vivipara there were more females than males.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1952

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