Epibiotic bryozoans on deep-water seleractinian corals from the Catalonia slope (western Mediterranean, Spain, France)

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Title:	Epibiotic bryozoans on deep-water seleractinian corals from the Catalonia slope (western Mediterranean, Spain, France)
Author:	Zabala i Limousin, Mikel; Maluquer, P. (Pere); Harmelin, Jean-Georges
Other authors:	Universitat de Barcelona
Abstract:	The bryozoan fauna growing on deep-water corals (Lophelia, Madrepora) from the upper-slope of Catalonia (Blanes and Banyuls-sur-mer: NW Mediterranean Sea) was studied. Among the 36 species recorded, a new species, Escharella acuta sp. nov., and a new subspecies, Escharina dutertrei protecta ssp. nov., are described; five other species have been rarely reported or were unknown from the Mediterranean Sea (Copidozoum exiguum, Amphiblestrum flemingii, Schizomavella neptuni, Smittina crystallina, Phylactellipora eximia) . This epibiotic bryozoan fauna differs clearly from shallow-water assemblages and comprises a greater proportion of boreo-atlantic species.
Subject(s):	-Briozous -Coralls -Mediterrània, Mar -Bryozoa -Corals -Mediterranean Sea
Rights:	cc-by-nc (c) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), 1993 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/es
Document type:	Article Article - Published version
Published by:	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
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