Assessing conservation status and pursuing applicable management priorities for marine megafauna across multiple scales pose significant challenges. Because marine turtles exemplify these challenges, the IUCN Marine Turtle Specialist Group (MTSG) developed the 'conservation priorities portfolio' (CPP) framework in 2011 to evaluate population risk and threats for regional management units (RMUs). Here, the MTSG ...
During the 2003 SEGA expeditions one individual of Chaetaster longipes Retzius, 1805 was found at 40 meters depth by a SCUBA diver at Los Islotes (North Lanzarote), and two individuals of Hacelia superba Clark, 1921 were caught respectively by a circular wire fish trap and by dredging northeast of Gran Canaria. These are first records for the infralittoral and circumlittoral zones of the Canary Islands.
Due to the geographical location and paleobiogeography of the Canary Islands, the seaweed flora contains macroalgae with different distributional patterns. In this contribution, the biogeographical relations of several new records of deep-water macroalgae recently collected around the Canarian archipelago are discussed. These are Bryopsidella neglecta (Berthotd) Rietema,Discosporangium mesarthrocarpum (Meneghin...