Inventory of benthic amphipods from fine sand community of the Iberian Peninsula east coast (Spain), western Mediterranean, with new records

  1. de-la-Ossa-Carretero, Jose Antonio 1
  2. Dauvin, Jean-Claude 2
  3. Del-Pilar-Ruso, Yoana 1
  4. Gimenez-Casalduero, Francisca 1
  5. Sánchez-Lizaso, José Luis 1
  1. 1 Department of Marine Sciences and Applied Biology, University of Alicante
  2. 2 University of Lille Nord de France
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    University of Lille Nord de France

    Lila, Francia

    ROR https://ror.org/03btvgn05

Revista:
Marine Biodiversity Records

ISSN: 1755-2672

Año de publicación: 2010

Volumen: 3

Número: e119

Páginas: 1-10

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1017/S1755267210001065 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openRUA editor

Otras publicaciones en: Marine Biodiversity Records

Resumen

Recent sampling surveys (2004–2008) of the shallow (12–20 m) soft-bottom homogeneous fine-sand community have allowed the collection of 55 marine amphipod species (53 Gammaridea and 2 Caprellidea) along the 250 km of Iberian Peninsula east coast (Spain, Mediterranean Sea). Among the species recorded, one recently described is new to science, five were collected for the first time in the Spanish Mediterranean and 14 were recorded for a second time confirming their presence. Of these 20 species; six are considered to be endemic to the Mediterranean Sea, seven are also north-eastern Atlantic species, and the last seven have a wide geographical distribution in the Indo-Pacific or Arctic and the Atlantic Oceans. Finally, multivariate analyses of species distribution showed changes among locations according to the north–south axis and depth, parameters that highly influence the benthic communities.

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  • CONSOMAR S.A. and Entitat de Sanejament d’Aigües for the. University of Alicante for a predoctorate grant. Spain