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The Effect of particle size on the burying ability of the brown shrimp Crangon crangon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Eunice H. Pinn  and
Alan D. Ansell
Eunice H. Pinn
Affiliation:
Department of Biological and Molecular Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA. Present address: University Marine Biological Station, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae, KA28 0EG.
Alan D. Ansell
Affiliation:
Present address: University Marine Biological Station, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae, KA28 0EG. Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, PO Box 3, Oban, PA34 4AD
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The burial mechanism of Crangon crangon was examined in detail using high-speed video-recording equipment. Four stages of burial were identified which were associated with three modes of burial. As the mode of burial changed, a change in the angle of substratum penetration was also noted.

The effect of particle size on the burying ability of three discrete size classes of shrimp was examined using both artificially graded and naturally occurring sediments. Particle size was found to be a major influencing factor on the degree of burial achieved by C. crangon, but no significant effect of shrimp size on burying ability was found over the size range tested.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 73 , Issue 2 , May 1993 , pp. 365 - 377
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1993

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