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Checklist of the shallow-water marine molluscs of the Azores: 1 - Pico, Faial, Flores and Corvo
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An up-to-date commented check-list of the shallow-water marine molluscs of
Pico, Faial, Flores and Corvo islands (Azores, Portugal) is provided, based on
literature records, on material deposited at the Department of Biology of the University
of the Azores (DBUA) as a result of the scientific expeditions "Flores/89",
"Açores/89" and "Pico/91", and on photographic material at the Department of
Oceanography and Fisheries/University of the Azores (DOP/UA). The collections of
the Museu Carlos Machado - Historia Natural, MCM-HN, of the Museu de Zoologia
- Museu de Historia Natural da Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia da Universidade
de Coimbra, MZ/MHN-FCTUC, and the mollusc collection deposited at DOP/UA were surveyed and the results are included in this report.
Two hundred and fifty five taxa of shallow-water molluscs are reported to Pico,
Faial, Flores and Corvo Islands (196 Gastropoda, 50 Bivalvia and 9 Cephalopoda).
Of these, 32 are dubious records (23 Gastropoda, 8 Bivalvia and 1 Cephalopoda),
there remaining 197 confirmed species to these islands. A total of 26 taxa were
identified only down to the genus level (25 Gastropoda and 1 Bivalvia).
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Pico Island Faial Island Shallow-waters Molluscs Azores Archipelago Flores Island Corvo Island Gastropoda Bivalvia Cephalopoda Marine Molluscs
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ÁVILA, SÉRGIO P., J.M.N. AZEVEDO, J.M. GONÇALVES, J. FONTES & F. CARDIGOS, (1998). Checklist of the shallow - water marine molluscs of the Azores: 1 - Pico, Faial, Flores and Corvo islands. "Açoreana. Revista de Estudos Açoreanos", 8(4): 487-523.
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Sociedade Afonso Chaves