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First report of the marine hydroids Eudendrium glomeratum, E. merulum and Garveia grisea (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the Moroccan Atlantic coast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2013

Badiâa Iazza ,
Manuel M. González-Duarte ,
Abdellatif Moukrim  and
César Megina Martinez
Badiâa Iazza*
Affiliation:
Biodiversidad y Ecología de Invertebrados Marinos (BEIM), Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Avenida Reina Mercedes, 6, 41012-Sevilla, Spain Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université Ibn Zohr, BP 8106 Cité Dakhla, Agadir, Morocco
Manuel M. González-Duarte
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biología, Universidad de Cádiz, Apartado 40, 11510-Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain
Abdellatif Moukrim
Affiliation:
Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université Ibn Zohr, BP 8106 Cité Dakhla, Agadir, Morocco
César Megina Martinez
Affiliation:
Biodiversidad y Ecología de Invertebrados Marinos (BEIM), Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Avenida Reina Mercedes, 6, 41012-Sevilla, Spain
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Correspondence should be addressed to: B. Iazza, Departamento de Zoología 3a planta, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Avenida Reina Mercedes, 6, 41012-Sevilla, Spain email: biazza@us.es
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Abstract

Three marine hydroid species, Garveia grisea, Eudendrium glomeratum and Eudendrium merulum, widely spread and abundant in the Mediterranean Sea and with scarce records elsewhere, are reported for the first time from the Moroccan Atlantic coast. As part of a project studying the distribution of the hydroid assemblages from 0 to 30 m depth in the Strait of Gibraltar and the nearby area, the new records reported in the present contribution widen the known biogeographical distribution of these three species.

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Cnidariamarine hydroiddistributionEudendrium glomeratumE. merulumGarveia griseaMoroccan Atlantic coastfirst report

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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 6 , 2013 , e77
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2013 

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These authors contributed equally to this work.

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