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+[[!meta title="Productivity and grazing impact of Oikopleura dioica (Tunicata, Appendicularia) in Tokyo Bay"]]
+[[!tag Oikopleura]]
+
+Riki Sato, Yukiko Ishibashi, Yuji Tanaka, Takashi Ishimaru, Michael J. Dagg.
+
+Journal of Plankton Research, Volume 30, Issue 3, March 2008, Pages 299–309 doi: 10.1093/plankt/fbn001
+
+Productivity and grazing impact of _Oikopleura dioica_ (Tunicata, Appendicularia) in Tokyo Bay
+
+[[!doi 10.1093/plankt/fbn001 desc="Rare in July to September, where surface temperatures are higher than 25 °C. Homogeneously distributed from 0 to 25 m in the water column from December to March, when temperatures were around 10 °C or below. Rarity in summer interpreted as the result of predation."]]
([[Lawrence and coll., 2018|biblio/10.1002_lno.10734]]). This study does not assess
whether the viruses are digested.
-### Distribution near Japan
+### Distribution in and near Japan
+ - _O. dioica_ was reported to be abundant in Tokyo bay except in summer
+ ([[Sato and coll, 2008|biblio/10.1093_plankt_fbn001]]).
- _O. dioica_ was reported in the Omura (Nagasaki) bay by [[Ito and Iizuka
(1980)|biblio/10069_30542]].
- It was already reported to be frequent in Japanese waters [[in 1907 by T.