Copyright (c) Springer-Verlag and AWI 2006. ; Marine benthic species introduced to the Azores are collated from scientific publications, internal reports and own data. Twelve algae and 21 invertebrates are classified as non-indigenous species, 18 as cryptogenic. Two species of algae and two ascidians are regarded as particularly invasive along the shores of this oceanic archipelago.
This 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 Zoolog...
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 F...
Registaram-se no arquipélago dos Açores de 1992 a 1996, 49 arrojamentos de 13 espécies de cetáceos. Os golfinhos-comuns (Delphinus delphis) constituíram a espécie que mais frequentemente arrojou. O arrojamento de um rorqual-comum (Balaenoptera physalus) foi registado pela primeira vez nesta região do Atlântico. O invulgar arrojamento de um cachalote anão (Kogia simus), que foi reconduzido aparentemente com suce...
VIII Expedição Científica do Departamento de Biologia – Ilha do Faial - 1993. ; The prey remains found around the dens of 6 octopus (Octopus vulgaris) were collected during the "Expedition Faial-93" (28 June to 3 July 1993) in "Reserva do Monte da Guia" by SCUBA diving (total of 4 dives). Based on this very preliminary work, the small crabs (Xantho spp.), bivalves (Limaria hians), and ormers (Haliotis tubercul...
Os arrojamentos ocorridos em 1989, dum zífio, Ziphius cavirostris G. Cuvier, 1823, na ilha de Santa Maria, e duma baleia de bico-de-Gervais, Mesoplodon europaeus (Gervais, 1855) na ilha do Faial, representam os primeiros registos destas espécies paro o Arquipélago dos Açores. As medidas externas dos dois espécimes e a craniometria de M. europaeus são apresentadas. Fornece-se também uma lista actualizada das 22 ...
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