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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2010

José Antonio De-La-Ossa-Carretero ,
Jean-Claude Dauvin ,
Yoana Del-Pilar-Ruso ,
Francisca Giménez-Casalduero  and
José Luis Sánchez-Lizaso
José Antonio De-La-Ossa-Carretero*
Affiliation:
Department of Marine Sciences and Applied Biology, University of Alicante, Apartado 99 E-03080 Alicante, Spain
Jean-Claude Dauvin
Affiliation:
Université de Lille Nord de France, 59000 Lille, France Université de Lille 1, Station Marine de Wimereux, UMR LOG, 28 Avenue Foch, BP 80, F-62930 Wimereux, France
Yoana Del-Pilar-Ruso
Affiliation:
Department of Marine Sciences and Applied Biology, University of Alicante, Apartado 99 E-03080 Alicante, Spain
Francisca Giménez-Casalduero
Affiliation:
Department of Marine Sciences and Applied Biology, University of Alicante, Apartado 99 E-03080 Alicante, Spain
José Luis Sánchez-Lizaso
Affiliation:
Department of Marine Sciences and Applied Biology, University of Alicante, Apartado 99 E-03080 Alicante, Spain
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: J.A. de-la-Ossa-Carretero, Department of Marine Sciences and Applied Biology, University of Alicante, Apartado 99 E-03080 Alicante, Spain email: ja.ossa@ua.es
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Abstract

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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amphipodsMediterraneanSpainfine-sand
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Research Article
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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 3 , June 2010 , e119
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2010

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