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Lagoons

lagoon

a shallow lake or pond, especially one connected with a larger body of water, an area of shallow salt water separated from the sea by sand dunes, the area of water surrounded by an atoll, or circular coral reef.


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Global Crayfish Distribution and Interspecific Competition

... pair, is sufficient at once to distinguish them from any of the Astacidæ. Species of these large-clawed prawns live in the brackish water lagoons of the Gulf of Mexico, but I am not aware that any of them have yet been met with in the sea itself. The Palæmon lacustris ( Anchistia migratoria ...

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by Shagreen
Fri Mar 25, 2005 12:56 am
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Global Crayfish Distribution and Interspecific Competition
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