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Checklist of the shallow-water marine molluscs of the Azores: 2 - São Miguel Island.

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dc.contributor.authorÁvila, Sérgio P.
dc.contributor.authorAzevedo, José M. N.
dc.contributor.authorGonçalves, João M.
dc.contributor.authorFontes, José
dc.contributor.authorCardigos, Frederico
dc.date.accessioned2011-02-23T11:31:33Z
dc.date.available2011-02-23T11:31:33Z
dc.date.issued2000
dc.description.abstractThis paper provides an updated checklist of the shallow-water marine molluscs of São Miguel island, based on the data from the bibliography and in the species collected from 1989 on by the Marine Biology teams of the University of the Azores (Ponta Delgada) and of the Department of Oceanography and Fisheries (Horta). The collections of the Museu Carlos Machado - História Natural (MCM-HN), of the Museu de Zoologia - Museu de História Natural da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra (MZ/MHN-FCTUC) and the image bank of DOP/UA, Department of Oceanography and Fisheries of the University of the Azores (ImagDOP), were also surveyed and the results are here reported. A total of 235 taxa of shallow water marine molluscs are reported to Slo Miguel island (4 Polyplacophora, 167 Gastropoda, 61 Bivalvia and 3 Cephalopoda). Of these, 10 are dubious records (7 Gastropoda and 3 Bivalvia), there remaining 225 confirmed taxa in this island. A total of 18 taxa were identified only down to the genus level (17 Gastropoda and 1 Bivalvia). Fifteen species are cited for the first time to the Azores: Dikoleps cf. cutleriana (Clark, 1848), (Bouchet & Guillemot, 1978), Cirsotrema cochlea (Sowerby G.B. II, 1844), Opalia bellenica (Forbes, 1844), Bela laevigata (Philippi, 1836), Odostomia nitens Jeffreys, 1870, Gregariella semigranata (Reeve, 1858), Modiolus adriaticus (Lamarck, 1836), Rhomboidella prideauxi (Leach, 1815), Lima lima (Linnaeus, 1758), Kellia cf. suborbicularis (Montagu, 1803), Astarte cf. sulcata (da Costa, 1778), Tellina pygmaea Loven, 1846, Venus nux Gmelin, 1791 and Thracia papyracea (Poli, 1791).por
dc.identifier.citationÁVILA, S.P., J.M.N. AZEVEDO, J.M. GONÇALVES, J. FONTES & F. CARDIGOS (2000). Checklist of the shallow-water marine molluscs of the Azores: 2 - São Miguel Island. "Açoreana. Revista de Estudos Açoreanos", 9(2): 139-173.por
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/1020
dc.language.isoengpor
dc.publisherSociedade Afonso Chavespor
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAçoreana. Revista de Estudos Açoreanos;9(2)
dc.subjectMarine Molluscspor
dc.subjectShallow-waters Molluscspor
dc.subjectDikoleps cf. cutlerianapor
dc.subjectSimiliphora similiorpor
dc.subjectCirsotrema cochleapor
dc.subjectOpalia bellenicapor
dc.subjectBela laevigatapor
dc.subjectOdostomia nitenspor
dc.subjectGregariella semigranatapor
dc.subjectModiolus adriaticuspor
dc.subjectRhomboidella prideauxipor
dc.subjectLima limapor
dc.subjectKellia cf. suborbicularispor
dc.subjectTellina pygmaeapor
dc.subjectThracia papyraceapor
dc.titleChecklist of the shallow-water marine molluscs of the Azores: 2 - São Miguel Island.por
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rcaap.rightsopenAccesspor
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