Sipuncula inhabiting the coral Oculina patagonica in the western Mediterranean Sea
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Título: | Sipuncula inhabiting the coral Oculina patagonica in the western Mediterranean Sea |
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Autor/es: | Ferrero-Vicente, Luis Miguel | Rubio-Portillo, Esther | Ramos-Esplá, Alfonso A. |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Biología Marina | Recursos Hídricos y Desarrollo Sostenible |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ciencias del Mar y Biología Aplicada |
Palabras clave: | Sipuncula | Oculina patagonica | Associated macrofauna | Coral | Bioerosion | Iberian Peninsula | Mediterranean Sea |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Zoología |
Fecha de publicación: | 8-mar-2016 |
Editor: | BioMed Central |
Cita bibliográfica: | Marine Biodiversity Records. 2016, 9:2. doi:10.1186/s41200-016-0003-z |
Resumen: | Background: We analyzed the sipunculan fauna inhabiting the scleractinian coral Oculina patagonica in the Marine Reserve of Tabarca Island (western Mediterranean). Results: Five sipunculan species were collected from 2011 to 2014: Phascolosoma stephensoni, P. granulatum, P. cf. agassizii, Aspidosiphon misakiensis, and Golfingia vulgaris. All five species were reported for the first time inhabiting O. patagonica; with P. cf. agassizii being a new record for the Iberian Peninsula. The average abundance of sipunculans inhabiting the coral was 468.75 ± 158.04 ind m−2, representing the second most abundant taxonomic group, in biomass, after Mollusca. Conclusions: Sipunculan diversity was low comparing with tropical reefs, but species abundances were higher than in soft-bottom nearby areas and community structure appears to be more homogeneous. There may be a considerable contribution to the erosion of the coral skeleton by sipunculans. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/53698 |
ISSN: | 1755-2672 |
DOI: | 10.1186/s41200-016-0003-z |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2016 Ferrero-Vicente et al. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41200-016-0003-z |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - BM - Artículos Científicos / Scientific Papers INV - Recursos Hídricos y Desarrollo Sostenible - Artículos de Revistas |
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