Molluscan diversity in the North Atlantic Ocean: new records of opisthobranch gastropods from the Archipelago of the Azores

  1. Malaquias, Manuel António E. 1
  2. Calado, Gonçalo P. 5
  3. Padula, Vinicius 3
  4. Villani, Guido 4
  5. Cervera, Juan L. 2
  1. 1 Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK, Present address: Bergen Museum, University of Bergen, Muse´plass 3, N-5007 Bergen, Norway
  2. 2 Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Ambientales, Universidad de Cádiz, Polígono del Río San Pedro s/n, Apdo. 40, 11510 Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain
  3. 3 Departamento de Invertebrados, Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista s/n, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 20940-040, Brazil
  4. 4 Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare (CNR), Via Campi Flegrei, 34, 80078 Pozzuoli (Naples), Italy
  5. 5 Universidade Luso´fona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisboa, Portugal and Centre for Ecological Modeling IMAR, FCT/UNL, Monte da Caparica, Portugal
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Revista:
Marine Biodiversity Records

ISSN: 1755-2672

Año de publicación: 2009

Volumen: 2

Páginas: 1-9

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1017/S175526720800016X GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: Marine Biodiversity Records

Resumen

New findings of opisthobranch gastropods are reported to the Azores resulting from fieldwork undertaken in the islands ofFaial and Sa˜o Jorge (Central Group, Azores) during August 2007. Intertidal and subtidal areas down to 35 metres deepwere sampled. Forty-four species were collected and eight are new records to the Azores, namely Chelidonura africana,Odontoglaja sabadiega, Aplysia juliana, Elysia flava, Thuridilla picta, Doris sticta, Catriona maua and Taringa armata.This increases the diversity of opisthobranchs in the archipelago to 141 species. Our results provide further support for thecloser affinity of the Azorean marine diversity with the eastern Atlantic/Mediterranean Sea biota (75% of species) butthey also show a biogeographic bound with the Caribbean province (25% of common species).

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