Estado actual y distribución del madreporario Dendrophyllia laboreli en el mar Mediterráneo, Canarias y sur de Portugal
- Ocaña Vicente, Oscar
- Herrera, Rogelio
- Brito Hernández, Alberto Miguel
- Garrido López, Mario
- González Lorenzo, Gustavo
- Monterroso Hoyos, Oscar
- Aguilar Rubio, Ricardo
ISSN: 1130-4723
Year of publication: 2010
Volume: 22
Issue: 3
Pages: 53-68
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias: = Folia Canariensis Academiae Scientiarum
Abstract
New records of the Dendrophylliidae species Dendrophyllia laboreli in the Mediterranean Sea (Alboran basin), South Portugal and also in the Canaries are biogeographically relevant. The presence in the Mediterranean Sea and the recent wide distribution towards new locations in Canary Islands of such species is discussed in relation to the climatic fluc- tuations. In the Canaries several years of ecological searching have producing a high quantity of new data about the environment where the species occurs and its distribution along the islands. The population stability at the Mediterranean Sea and its characteristics are described, the habitats where the species occurs along the distribution area is also analyzed.