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First record of Hacelia superba (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) on the European continental margin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2011

José L. Rueda ,
Juan Gil ,
Emilio González-García ,
Carlos Farias ,
Nieves López-González  and
Víctor Díaz-del-Río
José L. Rueda*
Affiliation:
Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga, Puerto Pesquero s/n, E-29640 Fuengirola, Spain
Juan Gil
Affiliation:
Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Cádiz, Muelle de Levante s/n, PO Box 2609, E-11006 Cádiz, Spain
Emilio González-García
Affiliation:
Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Cádiz, Muelle de Levante s/n, PO Box 2609, E-11006 Cádiz, Spain
Carlos Farias
Affiliation:
Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Cádiz, Muelle de Levante s/n, PO Box 2609, E-11006 Cádiz, Spain
Nieves López-González
Affiliation:
Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga, Puerto Pesquero s/n, E-29640 Fuengirola, Spain
Víctor Díaz-del-Río
Affiliation:
Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga, Puerto Pesquero s/n, E-29640 Fuengirola, Spain
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: J.L. Rueda, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga, Puerto Pesquero s/n, E-29640 Fuengirola, Spain email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Living specimens of the amphi-Atlantic asteroid Hacelia superba have been collected in different areas of Gazul mud volcano in the Gulf of Cadiz, south-western Iberian Peninsula, at depths of 380–487 m. This starfish displayed low abundances (~1 ind. 2000 m−2) in beam trawl catches on the mud vulcano and adjacent soft bottoms. The absence of previous records in this area could be due to a low sampling effort on bathyal hard bottoms of the Gulf of Cadiz, especially those of dormant mud volcanoes, as well as a possible misidentification as Hacelia attenuata that also occurs in the area but is restricted to infralittoral and circalitoral bottoms.

Keywords

starfishOphidiasteridaeepibenthosGulf of Cadizmud volcano
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Research Article
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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 4 , December 2011 , e96
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2011

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