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Observations of the echiuran worm Bonellia viridis in the deep basin of the northern Evoikos Gulf, Greece

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2001

D.J. Hughes ,
S.J. Marrs ,
C.J. Smith  and
R.J.A. Atkinson
D.J. Hughes
Affiliation:
Centre for Coastal & Marine Sciences, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, PO Box 3, Oban, Argyll, PA34 4AD, Scotland
S.J. Marrs
Affiliation:
University Marine Biological Station, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae, KA28 0EG, Scotland
C.J. Smith
Affiliation:
Institute of Marine Biology of Crete, PO Box 2214, 710 03 Iraklio, Crete, Greece
R.J.A. Atkinson
Affiliation:
University Marine Biological Station, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae, KA28 0EG, Scotland
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Abstract

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Towed underwater TV observations at 440 m in the northern Evoikos Gulf, Greece, revealed a soft mud plain heavily bioturbated by the thalassinidean Calocaris macandreae, with Callianassa subterranea and Nephrops norvegicus also present. Ejecta mounds and feeding traces indicated the presence of a large echiuran, provisionally identified as Maxmuelleria gigas. The locality also supported a dense population of a second echiuran, Bonellia viridis, a species not previously recorded as an inhabitant of sedimentary environments.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 79 , Issue 2 , April 1999 , pp. 361 - 363
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© 1999 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom