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A comparison is made of the rocky shore fauna of Northern Norway, Iceland and the Canadian Maritimes. The rocky shore fauna of Iceland and especially that of the Maritimes are essentially impoverished subsets of the rocky shore fauna of Northern Norway, in agreement with a hypothesis of post-glacial dispersal from Europe.
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