Shallow-water molluscs from the Formigas islets, Azores, collected during the S...

• Author(s): Ávila, Sérgio P. ; Azevedo, José M. N.
• Date: 1997
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/937
• Origin: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
• Subject(s): Formigas Islets; Natural Reserve; Shallow-waters Molluscs
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

The Formigas islets are a group of rocks extended in a N-S direction, with about 165 m long by 80 m wide, located 36 km NE from Santa Maria island and 60 km SE from Sao Miguel island. The highest point,'Formigao', reaches 11 m. These islets are part of the so called Formigas Bank, an area of shallow waters with roughly 7 km long by 3 km wide, which is located between parallels 37°14'N and 37°17'N, and the meridians 24°43'W and 24°47'W (Instituto Hidrográfico, 1981; Azevedo et al., 1991) and constitutes a Natural Reserve. From 3 to 9 of August, 1990, the Marine Biology team of the Department of Biology of the University of the Azores studied the Formigas islets, during the 'Santa Maria e Formigas 1990' scientific expedition. This paper provides the list of the shallow-water molluscs collected during this expedition.