| INTRODUCTION From mid-January 1961 until the end of 1966 macroplankton was collected by the crew of "Texel" lightship (position: 53°01'30"Ν 04°22' E) and identified afterwards in the Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee, at that time still in Den Helder. The nets, of Saran gauze with a 2 mm mesh and an opening of 1 m2, were originally intended for catching elvers, for investigations reported upon by Creutzberg, 1961. The original aim of the present plankton project was to catch Scyphomedusae, but soon after it had been started all the available macroplankton was sorted out and, if possible, identified. This explains why the decapod larvae, dealt with in the present paper, came to be collected by nets, quite unfit for that purpose. When the meshes... |
