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New marine amphipod records on the Algerian coast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2014

Ali Bakalem ,
Jean-Claude Dauvin  and
Samir Grimes
Ali Bakalem
Affiliation:
Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique (ENSA), Avenue Hassan Badi, 16200 El Harrach, Algiers, Algeria
Jean-Claude Dauvin*
Affiliation:
Normandie University, France UNICAEN, Laboratoire Morphodynamique Continentale et Côtière, UMR 6143 M2C, 24 rue des Tilleuls, F-14000 Caen, France CNRS, UMR 6143 M2C, 24 rue des Tilleuls, F-14000 Caen, France
Samir Grimes
Affiliation:
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Sciences de la Mer et de l'Aménagement du Littoral (ENSSMAL), BP 19, Campus universitaire de Dely Brahim, Bois des Cars, Algiers, Algeria
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: J.-C. Dauvin, UNICAEN, Laboratoire Morphodynamique Continentale et Côtière, UMR 6143 M2C, 24 rue des Tilleuls, F-14000 Caen, France email: jean-claude.dauvin@unicaen.fr
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Abstract

Recent sampling surveys (2011–2012) of the shallow (0–50 m) hard-bottom communities and re-examination of some soft-bottom communities (5–143 m) along the Algerian coast have allowed the collection of 33 species (five Caprelloidea, 27 Gammaridea and one Hyperiidea), which were not recorded before in the inventory of the marine amphipod fauna of Algeria (Bakalem & Dauvin, 1995; Grimes et al., 2009). This paper reports the number of specimens sampled for each of these 33 species and provides data on their geographical distribution and habitats. Fourteen of the species (43%) are considered to be endemic to the Mediterranean Sea; 15 others are north-eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean species, and the four last are cosmopolitan species. Twenty-nine of the new records are known for Italian waters and 19 in Greek waters where there is intensive amphipod inventory. The total number of marine amphipod fauna in Algeria is now 332.

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amphipodsAlgerian coastnew recordsdistribution

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 94 , Issue 4 , June 2014 , pp. 753 - 762
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2014 

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