Figure 4B. Comparison of the mean percentage abundances for several numerically dominant polycystine families and the two orders, recovered in 0-300 m plankton tows with those from time-series sediment traps deployed at 853 m, in the eastern equatorial Atlantic. 1: Spongodiscidae; 2: Pyloniidae; 3: Pyloniidae; 4: Litheliidae; 5: Coccodiscidae; 6: Collosphaeridae; 7: Plagoniidae; 8: Theoperidae; 9: Pterocorythidae; 10: Pterocorythidae; 11: Cannobotryidae; 12: Artostrobiidae; 13: Spumellaria; 14: Nassellaria. From Boltovskoy et al. (1995). |
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