Coral assemblage off the Calabrian Coast (South Italy) with new observations on living colonies of Antipathes dichotoma
Bo, M.; Bavestrello, G.; Canese, S.; Giusti, M.; Angiolillo, M.; Cerrano, C.; Salvati, E.; Greco, S. (2011). Coral assemblage off the Calabrian Coast (South Italy) with new observations on living colonies of Antipathes dichotoma. Ital. J. Zoolog. 78(2): 231-242. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/11250001003652619 In: Italian Journal of Zoology. Taylor & Francis/Mucchi Editore: Modena. ISSN 1125-0003; e-ISSN 1748-5851, more |   |
| Keywords | Antipatharia [WoRMS]
Marine/Coastal | | Author keywords | Antipatharians; deep corals; Mediterranean Sea; habitat; ROV imaging |
| Authors | | Top | Dataset | - Bo, M.
- Bavestrello, G.
- Canese, S.
- Giusti, M.
| - Angiolillo, M.
- Cerrano, C.
- Salvati, E.
- Greco, S.
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| Abstract | The discovery of a small population of the black coral Antipathes dichotoma in the deep waters off the Calabrian coast (South Italy, Tyrrhenian Sea) is reported. The specimens have been photographed and a piece of colony has been collected with the aid of an ROV during an oceanographic cruise on board of the R/V Astrea of ICRAM, within the project Monitoring of the Calabrian Marine Biodiversity (MoBioMarCal). This finding completes the systematic picture of the oldest-described antipatharian species, giving an account of the living colonies and polyps, their cnidome and the habitat of the species, characterised by a rich and diverse coral community. |
| Dataset | - Linares, Cristina; Figuerola, Laura; Gómez-Gras, Daniel; Pagès-Escolà, Marta; Olvera, Àngela, Aubach, Àlex; Amate, Roger; Figuerola, Blanca; Kersting, Diego; Ledoux, Jean-Baptiste; López-Sanz, Àngel; López-Sendino, Paula; Medrano, Alba; Garrabou, Joaquim; (2020); CorMedNet- Distribution and demographic data of habitat-forming invertebrate species from Mediterranean coralligenous assemblages between 1882 and 2019, more
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