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- New records of marine invertebrates from Ascencion Island (Central Atlantic)Publication . Brown, Judith; Downes, K.; Mrowicki, R. J.; Nolan, E. L.; Richardson, Andrew J.; Swinnen, Frank; Wirtz, PeterThe sea anemone Telmatactis forskalii, the zoanthid Isaurus tuberculatus, the nemertine Baseodiscus delineatus, the echinoderms Ophiocoma wendtii and Mithrodia clavigera, the molluscs Colubraria canariensis, Glyphepithema turtoni, Tonna pennata, Trivia candidula, Melanella eburnea, Melanella n.sp., Echineulima leucophaes, Stylocheilus striatus, Limaria hians, Pteria hirundo and Callistoctopus macropus, and the crustaceans Tetraclitella sp., Oxynaspis celata, Thor amboinensis and Parribacus antarcticus are recorded from Ascension Island for the first time. A new depth record is given for the sea anemone Telmatactis cricoides. An undescribed shrimp species of the genus Lysmata and the shrimp Lysmata moorei were observed to clean fish at night.
- The polychaete Lygdamis wirtzi at Ascension and St Helena Islands (Annelida, Polychaeta, Sabellariidae)Publication . Brown, Judith; Nishi, Eijiroh; Wirtz, Peter[…]. The genus Lygdamis (Family Sabellariidae) currently contains 20 species (Hutchings et al. 2012; Capa et al. 2015). Lygdamis wirtzi Nishi and Núñez, 1999, was originally described from Madeira Island and the Canary Islands and has also been found at the Cape Verde Islands and at São Tomé Island (Wirtz 2001, 2003). New observations of this species were made while SCUBA diving at the coasts of Ascension and St Helena Islands in 2013 and 2015. [..].