This study was carried out to investigate the temporal variation of the benthic polychaetous community in Yoho Harbor in Yoja Bay, from August 1999 to May 2000. Polychaetes, the most dominant faunal group comprising 49.8% of the total number of benthi...
This study was carried out to investigate the temporal variation of the benthic polychaetous community in Yoho Harbor in Yoja Bay, from August 1999 to May 2000. Polychaetes, the most dominant faunal group comprising 49.8% of the total number of benthic macrofauna, collected as a total of 52 species with a mean density of 296 ind./㎡. With the passage of time, the density increased toward the inner bay, and the species number increased toward the outer bay. The most abundant polychaete was Heteromastus filiformis(18.2%), Sigambra tentaculata(13.5%), Eteone longa(11.8%) and so on.
Comparing with the past studies investigated near the study area, the importance of Prionospio sp.(22.2%), Sternaspio scutata(22.2%) and Notomastus sp.(22.2%) were the dominant species, but in present study, the densities of these dominant species were low.
The dominance of H. filiformis, as potential organic pollution indicator species in this study area, mean the progress of organic pollution of Yoho Harbor.