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First record of a Vestimentifera (Polychaeta: Siboglinidae) from chemosynthetic...
Hilário, A; Comas, MC; Azevedo, L; Pinheiro, L; Ivanov, MK; Cunha, MRA new population of vestimentiferan tubeworms was discovered during a recent expedition to a mud volcano field in the Alboran Sea, western Mediterranean Sea. Morphological data and mitochondrial cytochrome-c-oxidase subunit 1 (COI) sequences show that the Alboran tubeworm is essentially identical to Lamellibrachia sp. found in the eastern Mediterranean. This is the first record of a vestimentiferan species in t...
Mud volcanism in the Gulf of Cadiz: results from the TTR-10 cruise
Pinheiro, LM; Ivanov, MK; Sautkin, A; Akhmanov, G; Magalhaes, VH; Volkonskaya, A; Monteiro, JH; Somoza, L; Gardner, J; Hamouni, N; Cunha, MRA new deep water mud volcano field (between 2000 and 3500 in water depth) was discovered in the deep South Portuguese margin, as well as several new mud volcanoes in the South Spanish and Western Moroccan margins of the Gulf of Cadiz, during the TTR-10 (Training Through Research, UNESCO/IOC) cruise, in July/August 2000. This work followed the discovery of a large mud volcano field in the Gulf of Cadiz, first in...