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KORALDÝRINl CERIANTHARIA í FØROYSKUM SJÓØKI
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Among the BIOFAR samples, there
were no specimens of shallow-water spe-
cies Ceríanthus Uoydii Gosse, 1859 com-
mon in North Atlantic and Russian Arctic
seas (Molodtsova and Malakhov, 1995).
This species, as well as its planktonic larva,
known as Synarachnactis bournei (Fowler,
1897), has never been recorded from the
Faroe Islands. There is no explanation,
however, for its absence in the region. It is
likely that this species will be found in the
area around the Faroe Islands in the future
at a depth of 100-150 m.
Acknowledgements:
I am grateful to J. Sørensen and Dr. O.S. Tendal for
the opportunity to study cerianthids collected during
the BIOFAR program. Their contribution to this effort
was invaluable. Financial support for the publication
of this article came from the Volkswagen Foundation,
Grant 11/73638. This is publication No. 16 of the
project “Regional patterns and biodiversity on the deep
seafloor of European seas based on Russian and German
collections
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