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Duplicate entry=============================Notes on animal associations. 4. The starfish, Pentaceros hedemanni (Lutken) and the hesionid polychaete, Podarke angustifrons (Gurbe)

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Title Duplicate entry=============================Notes on animal associations. 4. The starfish, Pentaceros hedemanni (Lutken) and the hesionid
polychaete, Podarke angustifrons (Gurbe)
 
Creator Jones, S
 
Subject Sea Stars
Fish and Fisheries
 
Description While watching some specimens in the Institute's aquarium my attention was drawn to a Pentaceros hedemanni harbouring in one of its ambulacral grooves a polychaete which was subsequently identified as a hesionid, Podarke angustifrons
(Grube). The worm was found to emerge from the grooves winding its way through the podia and move about in the adambulacral region, rarely proceeding beyond the infra-ambulacral region. The starfish was attached to the vertical wall of the aquarium and though the movement of the podia did not appear to disturb the polychaete, it reacted to any outside disturbance and retreated quickly to
the ambulacral groove. The accompanying photographs (Plate I) show the polychaete in natural condition. Subsequently when broken open the starfish was found to harbour in all three specimens of P. angustifrons. Only very few of
the starfish had the commensal and usually only one was on each, and never more than three.
 
Publisher MBAI
 
Date 1964
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1441/1/Jones_249-250.pdf
Jones, S (1964) Duplicate entry=============================Notes on animal associations. 4. The starfish, Pentaceros hedemanni (Lutken) and the hesionid polychaete, Podarke angustifrons (Gurbe). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 6 (2). pp. 249-250.