Publication Date:
2023-07-10
Description:
During the cruises 3 and 15 of R.V. "Meteor", representatives of 7 families of benthic abyssal gastropods were collected. The prevalent group was the Turridae; the Naticidae are represented by 2 species, the remaining families by a single species each.
A survey of the frequency and distribution of the species within the study area is given. A systematic part deals with the individual species in detail, including notes on taxonomy, material and distribution. Concerning the composition of the abyssal gastropod fauna of the present material, Neogastropoda are 4 times as many as Archaeogastropoda and 6 times as many as Mesogastropoda and Opisthobranchia. 89 % of all specimens are Neogastropoda. Usually deep-sea organisms have a non-pelagic development, but many of the Iberian deep-sea Turrids have a planktotrophic protoconch, that means a long pelagic larval period. Among the 19 species, 2 are cosmopolitan, 9 show a transatlantic distribution and 8 are confined to East-Atlantic basins.
Keywords:
Agassiz Trawl; AGT; Belomitra quadrunplex; Benthomangelia sp.; Cocculina aff. C. pusilla; Cyclostrema richardi; Cylichnium oliviformis; DEPTH, water; Event label; Gymnobela engonia; Iberian deep sea; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; M15; M15_024; M15_025; M3; M3/1_024; M3/1_030; M3/1_037; M3/1_038; Meteor (1964); Neverita cf. nana; Number of species; Phymorhynchus alberti; Pleurotomella (Theta) bathyiberica; Pleurotomella (Theta) lyronuclea; Pleurotomella bruneri; Pleurotomella catherinae; Pleurotomella packardi; Pleurotomella phyxanor; Pleurotomella sandersoni; Pleurotomella tincta; Polinices (Euspira) aff. P. agujanus; Seguenzia elegans; Shannon Diversity Index; Turbonilla sp.
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 126 data points
