Macrofaunal assemblages associated with the sponge Sarcotragus foetidus Schmidt, 1862 (Porifera: Demospongiae) at the coasts of Cyprus and Greece
Pavloudi, C.; Christodoulou, M.; Mavidis, M. (2016). Macrofaunal assemblages associated with the sponge Sarcotragus foetidus Schmidt, 1862 (Porifera: Demospongiae) at the coasts of Cyprus and Greece. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e8210. https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e8210 In: Biodiversity Data Journal. Pensoft Publishers: Sofia. ISSN 1314-2836; e-ISSN 1314-2828, more |   |
| Keywords | Demospongiae [WoRMS]; Porifera [WoRMS]; Sarcotragus foetidus Schmidt, 1862 [WoRMS]
Marine/Coastal | | Author keywords | Sarcotragus foetidus; Porifera; Demospongiae; macrofauna; Greece; NorthAegean Sea; Cyprus; Levantine Basin; Eastern Mediterranean |
| Authors | | Top | - Pavloudi, C., more
- Christodoulou, M.
- Mavidis, M.
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| Abstract | Background This paper describes a dataset of macrofaunal organisms associated with the sponge Sarcotragus foetidus Schmidt, 1862, collected by scuba diving from two sampling sites: one in Greece (North Aegean Sea) and one in Cyprus (Levantine Sea). New information This dataset includes macrofaunal taxa inhabiting the demosponge Sarcotragus foetidus and contributes to the ongoing efforts of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) which aims at filling the gaps in our current knowledge of the world's oceans. This is the first paper, to our knowledge, where the macrofauna associated with S. foetidus from the Levantine Basin is being recorded. In total, 90 taxa were recorded, from which 83 were identified to the species level. Eight of these species are new records for the Levantine Basin. The dataset contains 213 occurrence records, fully annotated with all required metadata. |
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