Distribution of Scleractinia (Madrepora oculata and Lophelia pertusa) reported between 1995 and 2013 in the French Mediterranean Sea

• Main Authors: Fabri, Marie-claire, Pedel, Laura, Bargain, Annaelle
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: SEANOE 2019
• Subjects: Cold-water corals; Habitat mapping; Distribution; Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems; Biodiversity; Duthiers; Lacaze-Duthiers; Lophelia pertusa
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.17882/61347

In the Mediterranean deep-sea two scleractinian species, Lophelia pertusa (= Desmophyllum pertusum) and Madrepora oculata, make up the dominant structure-forming corals. The Lacaze-Duthiers canyon is the only French Mediterranean canyon where the two species L. pertusa and M. oculata have been obser...