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Xiang Liu, Jin Zhang, Wenqing Shi, Min Wang, Kai Chen and Li Wang
Understanding the drivers of macroinvertebrate community structure is fundamental for adequately controlling pollutants and managing ecosystems under global change. In this study, the abundance and diversity of benthic macroinvertebrates, as well as thei...
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Hassien Alnashiri, Liju Thomas, Maqbool Thaikkottathil, Siby Philip, Ranjeet Kutty, Sureshkumar Sivanpillai and Ali Mohammed Abo Rasain
Chitons (Polyplacophora) are marine molluscs that mostly inhabit rocky intertidal shores. Their biological and phylogenetic studies are comparatively sparse in the western Indo-Pacific regions. In addition, chitons belonging to the subfamily Acanthopleur...
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Alexandre Lobo-da-Cunha, Ângela Alves, Elsa Oliveira and Gonçalo Calado
To continue the investigation on the digestive system of polyplacophoran molluscs, a histological and ultrastructural study of the oesophagus, stomach and intestine of Chaetopleura angulata and Acanthochitona fascicularis was carried out. Stomach content...
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Ioannis Rallis, Giorgos Chatzigeorgiou, Marta Florido, Francisco Sedano, Avgi Procopiou, Melina Chertz-Bynichaki, Emmanouela Vernadou, Wanda Plaiti, Panayota Koulouri, Costas Dounas, Vasilis Gerovasileiou and Thanos Dailianis
The colonization of artificial structures by benthic organisms in the marine realm is known to be affected by the general trophic patterns of the biogeographical zone and the prevailing environmental traits at the local scale. The present work aims to pr...
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Guadalupe Gimenez, Giuseppe Corriero, Sajmir Beqiraj, Lorela Lazaj, Tamara Lazic, Caterina Longo, Maria Mercurio, Carlotta Nonnis Marzano, Massimo Zuccaro, Violeta Zuna and Cataldo Pierri
Coralligenous bioconstructions are one of the Mediterranean?s most distinctive and biodiverse marine habitats. This research aimed to provide a preliminary characterization of macrobenthic coralligenous assemblages at four sites located in the Marine Nat...
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Ibrahim M. Ghandour, Hamad A. Al-Washmi, Athar A. Khan, Ammar A. Mannaa, Mohammed H. Aljahdali and Brian G. Jones
This study utilizes lithofacies characteristics, petrographic, XRD, and stable isotope data of Al-Mejarma beachrocks, Red Sea, Saudi Arabia, to interpret its depositional setting, origin of cement, and coastal evolution. The beachrock is 1.15 m thick, me...
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Ammar A. Mannaa, Rabea A. Haredy and Ibrahim M. Ghandour
The present study concerns the Holocene inland beachrocks that are exposed in the Red Sea coastal plain at the mouth of Wadi Al-Hamd, South Al-Wajh City, Saudi Arabia, and their utility as an indicator for Holocene climate and sea level changes. In addit...
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Murat Bilecenoglu and Melih Ertan Çinar
This study presents the first comprehensive assessment of alien species occurrences within the selected 11 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) located on the Aegean and Levantine coasts of Turkey. The inventory includes a total of 289 species belonging to 15 p...
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Fábio Moraes da Costa, Fabiano Paschoal de Oliveira, Alessandra Araujo de Alcantara, Flávia Cristina dos Santos Rangel
O filo Mollusca constitui um dos grupos mais diversos em formas e espécies com adaptações funcionais e ambientais específicas para todos os habitats. Os gastrópodes constituem a maior classe do filo Mollusca, apresentando três subclasses: Prosobranchia, ...
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Fabio Crocetta, Roland Houart and Giuseppe Bonomolo
Three hundred years of study on the Mediterranean molluscan fauna led the scientific community to consider it as the best ever known. However, the rate at which new taxa are discovered and described every year is still remarkably high, even in key predat...
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