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Arthropods, 2013, 2(2): 89-94
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Crustacean fauna of a mussel cultivated raft system in the Black Sea

Murat Sezgin, Eylem Aydemir Cil

Received 1 January 2013;Accepted 5 February 2013;Published online 1 June 2013
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Abstract
The aim of the current study was to make a faunistic analysis of the crustaceans associated with cultivated mussels grown on ropes. Mussel samples from 30 cm ropes were collected from rope-grown mussel beds by hand. The crustacean fauna associated with mussel population were quantified. The density of crustacean fauna associated with mussels was significantly greater within rope-grown mussel assemblages than on other biotopes around.

Keywords Crustacea;Mytilus galloprovincialis;raft culture;rope-grown mussels;species richness.

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