Deep-sea Holothuroidea off Mauritania

• Main Authors: Calero, Belén, Ramil, Francisco, Ramos, Ana
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo; Biodiversity; Pesquerías; assemblages; Holothuroidea; Echinodermata; deep-waters; Mauritania; Northwest Africa; Las Palmas; Lofoten; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10508/2682; http://hdl.handle.net/10261/327724

Among invertebrates, echinoderms are one of the main benthic taxa, especially in deep bottoms, where they constitute the most important group of mobile epifauna (Gage and Tyler, 1991). In addition, holothurians are one of the taxa dominating epibenthic communities in different North Atlantic basins...