Introduction
The eggs, larvae (still carrying a yolk sac) and post-larvae (loss of yolk sac until
they leave the plankton) of fish spend some time drifting or swimming in the
surface waters of the open sea as members of the plankton and are thus dispersed
by surface currents. The fish species present in the plankton around Lundy
therefore reflect not only the fish species present around the island but also the
water masses in which they occur; the plankton of open oceanic waters being
different from that of coastal areas. The waters around Lundy are regarded as the
delimiting zone between the neritic waters of the Mid and Upper Bristol Channel
and the more oceanic waters of the Celtic Sea
Annual
Report of the Lundy Field Society 1979 30
Notes
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Townley M & King PE (1980) "The marine fauna of Lundy - ichthyoplankton
(fish plankton)" Rep Lundy Fld Soc 1979 30:49-55
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Annual
Report of the Lundy Field Society 1979 30
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