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A portable light-trap for collecting marine crustaceans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. M. C. Holmes  and
J. P. O'Connor
J. M. C. Holmes
Affiliation:
National Museum of Ireland, Dublin 2
J. P. O'Connor
Affiliation:
National Museum of Ireland, Dublin 2
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Abstract

A portable light-trap was designed and constructed to assist in Museum taxonomic studies on Crustacea. The trap was constructed throughout of transparent Perspex. The light-source was a chemoluminescent ampoule marketed under the name Cyalume® Lightstick. The present trap offers several advantages. It is inexpensive to construct, sturdy, readily portable, easy to operate, and safe to use. Field trials in Lough Hyne (Ine), Co. Cork, south west Ireland, have proved the apparatus to be most successful in attracting a wide variety of crustaceans.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , May 1988 , pp. 235 - 238
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1988

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