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The Larval Stages of Balcis alba and B. devians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Marie V. Lebour
Marie V. Lebour
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Naturalist at the Plymouth Laboratory.
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The young stages of the members of the family Eulimidæ are little known, the only reference to any species apparently being that of Loven (1844) who briefly notes and figures a veliger which he attributes to Eulima distorta (=Balcis devians). This has a very oblique shell and was probably a week or two old. A comparison of this figure with the apex of Balcis devians from Plymouth and its larvæ in the plankton makes one rather uncertain of its identity but shows that even in those early times it was known that a Eulima could remain some time in the plankton as a veliger.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , February 1935 , pp. 65 - 69
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1935

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