PMF Online

Being notes on the local distribution of species occurring in the neighbourhood of Plymouth, including some other records of species found on the south coasts of Devon and Cornwall and the adjacent offshore waters of the English Channel.

The 1957 edition of the PMF has been scanned with text recognition software and made available in Portable Document Format (PDF).  This enables chapters of the PMF to be searched and downloaded as required.  However, inorder to access the PDF files it is necessary to download Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Searches can be made within the PDF files by selecting the search button (Binoculars) from the tool bar, enter search term and click 'find'.  All occurrences of that term will then be found within the PDF document in question.

Contents

  Pages
Introduction
Including location descriptions		 vii-xxxix
Protozoa 1-25
Mesozoa 25
Porifera 26-32
Coelenterata 37-69
Ctenophora 69
Platyhelminthes 70-89
Nemathelminthes 99-98
Gastrotricha 98
Rotifera 99
Nemertini 99-108
Annelida 109-149
Echiuroidea 150
Sipunculoidea 150-152
Arthropoda 152-284
Mollusca 285-341
Chaetognatha 342
Phoronidea 342
Kamptozoa 343
Polyzoa 344-357
Echinodermata 358-369
Chordata 370-409
Addenda
410
Index
445-457

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1999 Updates

Acknowledgements

A number of people have assisted with information regarding the changes at sites since 1957. Thank you to the following contributers:

  • Rodney Bastard
  • Tim Charlesworth Cattewater Harbour Commissioners
  • Lt Cdr Simon Gooder, Deputy Queen’s Harbour Master Plymouth
  • Nigel Mortimer, Salcombe Conservation Officer
  • A.J.B. Mildmay-White
  • Mike Simpson retired Yealm Harbourmaster

Compiled by Sarah Dashfield 1998