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Science 14 September 1979:
Vol. 205. no. 4411, pp. 1129 - 1131
DOI: 10.1126/science.205.4411.1129
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Giant Larvacean Houses: Observations from Deep Submersibles

ERIC G. BARHAM 1

1 Southwest Fisheries Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, La Jolla, California 92038

The abundance of large, previously unknown larvacean feeding structures in the deep ocean is a striking contrast to the rarity of such forms taken in net hauls. In some areas, abandoned houses and their disintegrated parts provide a substrate for other organisms and contribute to organic aggregates.

Submitted on March 21, 1979
Revised on June 28, 1979


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