Wintertime meso-scale horizontal distribution of large tintinnids in the southern Yellow Sea
Abstract
Spatial distribution of some large tintinnid species (nominally > 76 μm) is investigated on samples vertically towed in the southern Yellow Sea in winters of 2001 to 2004. Nine tintinnid species are recorded: Codonellopsis morchella, Stenosemella pacifica, S. steini, Tintinnopsis schotti, T. radix, T. karajacensis, Eutintinnus tenuis, Parafavella sp., Leprotintinnus neriticus, of which C. morchella and T. radix dominated in the warm tongue-shaped zone of the Yellow Sea Warm Current (YSWC), and S. pacifica is the next in abundance. Our study shows that these tintinnids occur repeatedly in certain special distribution patterns.
- Publication:
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Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology
- Pub Date:
- February 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s00343-009-0031-1
- Bibcode:
- 2009ChJOL..27...31Z
- Keywords:
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- tintinnid;
- horizontal distribution;
- southern Yellow Sea