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Marine Worms of the Phylum Sipuncula
in Faroese waters
Sipunkula-ormar í føroyskum sjóøki
Vantsetti Murina1 and Jan Sørensen2
1: National Academy of Science of Ukraine: Institute of Biology of the Southern S.eas, 99011 Sevastopol,
Ukraine. Email: murina@ibss.iuf.net
2: Kaldbak Marine Biological Laboratory, FO-180 Kaldbak, Faroe Islands. Email: jan@havbotnur.fo
Úrtak
í samband við BIOFAR verkætlanimar, sum høvdu
til enđamáls at kanna botndýralívið í føroyskum sjó-
øki, vóru seks nýggj sløg av sipunkuiida ormum
funnin. Sostatt eru higartil funnin 10 ymisk sløg av
sipunkulidum í føroyskum sjóøki. Dýrini eru sett upp í
lista við gjølligum upplýsingum um hvørt slagi sær, og
eisini er kort av hvar hvørt slagið er funnið. í greinini
er eisini lykil.til at greina sundur familjur, ættir og sløg.
Abstract
The BIOFAR programme (investigations of the marine
benthic fauna within the Faroese fishing territory) added
six new species of sipunculans to the four previously
known Sipuncula species from the region. This paper
presents a comprehensive list of all the found species
and maps showing the distribution. A key to families,
genera and species is also given.
Introduction
Investigations on the marine benthic fauna
within the Faroese fishing territory started
in 1987 as a Nordic programme called BI-
OFAR with sampling efforts concentrated
on waters deeper than 100 m. After the
BIOFAR sampling was concluded in 1993,
a new programme called BIOFAR 2 started
in 1995 to sample marine benthic fauna
from the intertidal zone to a 100 m depth.
The BIOFAR material was collected
with various benthic sampling equipment
(Nørrevang et al., 1994). Five thousand
one hundred and forty specimens of sipun-
culans were recovered from 253 stations.
In all, 99 samples were taken by detritus
sledge (43%), 56 samples (24.3%) by a
heavy triangular dredge, 25 samples (about
11%) by epibenthic sampler, and 20 sam-
ples (about 9%) by a medium triangular
dredge. The last 32 samples (14%) were
taken using other benthic sampling equip-
ment. It should be noted that the richest
samples (80-100 individuals or more) were
taken by detritus sledge. Most often Ihe
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