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DURING the examination of the plankton collected in the course of the monthly cruise off the Israeli coast in September 1951 an unusual abundance of a cladoceran, identified as Podon polyphemoides (Leuck.), was observed in some of the samples. The organism was found to be present along the coast from Askalon in the south to Athlit in the north, being most abundant at a depth of 10 fathoms, its incidence gradually decreasing towards the 75-fathom depth-line.
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KOMAROVSKY, B. A Cladoceran from the Plankton as a Possible Indicator for the Presence of the Nile Flood off the Israeli Coast. Nature 171, 937 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/171937a0
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