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Volume: 46 (1962)

Issue: 10. (October)

First Page: 1968

Last Page: 1968

Title: Foraminiferal Populations and Faunas in the Barrier Reef and Lagoon of British Honduras: ABSTRACT

Author(s): Donald E. Cebulski

Article Type: Meeting abstract

Abstract:

Eighty-nine sediment and 41 bottom-water samples were collected from the barrier reef and lagoon of British Honduras. The sediment samples were obtained with a gravity coring tube and a Van Veen grab sampler. The top 1 cm. or 10 ml. of wet sediment of each core or grab sample was used to study the contained Foraminifera. The temperature and salinity of each bottom-water sample were measured.

Living and total (living and dead) foraminiferal populations were determined in each sediment sample. The largest populations on the barrier reef occur on the leeward side of mangrove and coral sand cays.

The Barrier Reef fauna was typified by the restricted occurrence of some species of the families Alveolinellidae, Amphisteginidae, Cymbaloporidae, Peneroplidae, and Rotaliidae, and abundant and diversified Miliolidae.

The Lagoon fauna was characterized by the abundant occurrence of species of Elphidium and Nonian, and the relatively common occurrence of variants of Streblus beccarii.

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