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JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
Volume 81, Issue 5, Pages 881-882Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315401004738
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A specimen of the deep-water, spatangoid urchin. Cystochinus loveni, wearing a costume of agglutinated protists, was collected from 3088 m in the Gulf of Alaska, north-east Pacific. Over 24 putative taxa of living and dead foraminiferans and xenophyophores, as well as a sipunculan.. polychaete tanaid, and two isopods, were collected from the dorsal surface of this single individual, This is the first report of a deep-sea urchin using rhizopod protists and it is proposed that the urchin acquires camouflage or benefits from increased specific gravity associated with the protistan cloak.
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