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Citation: Colgan, N. 1909 Dublin Marine Biological Committee report for 1908 with special notes on the Mollusca. Irish Naturalist 18: 166-177


Number of Pages: 12

Keywords: Alga, Biogeography, Cnidaria, Crustacea, Echinodermata, Fauna, Fish, Isopoda, Littoral, Marine, Mollusca, Pisces, Porifera, Seaweed, Sponge, Sublittoral, Survey

Abstract: A review of the flora and fauna collected from the shore and by inshore dredging along the coast of Co. Dublin is presented. The results of 12 dredging trips and shore collections at Skerries and Bullock are summarised. A list of species collected in three districts; Dalkey Sound and Muglins, Malahide River and creek, and Skerries Bay and Islands is presented, with note of interesting species. Eight species were new to the Irish molluscan fauna.