Occurrence of the Freshwater Jellyfish, Craspedacusta sowerbyi, in Lake Mead, Nevada
Deacon JE and Haskell WL. 1963. Occurrence of the Freshwater Jellyfish, Craspedacusta sowerbyi, in Lake Mead, Nevada. The American Midland Naturalist. 70(2):504
Reports on the discovery of large numbers of Craspedacusta sowerbyi in Lake Mead in October, 1962. Collections of up to 500 were taken at approximately one-week intervals until January 1963. A collecting trip in February 1963 resulted in no jellyfish.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Deacon, James; Haskell, William
- Units
- LAKE
- Keywords
- Absence (Biodiversity), Animal Studies, Aquatic Resources, Colorado Plateau, Ecology, Invertebrate, Population, Presence (Biodiversity), Taxa Links To References