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THE OCCURENCE OF TWO SPECIES OF THE FAMILY PRIAPULIDAE IN FAROESE WATERS
Figure 1. Priapulus caudatus from station KA05 (Kaldbaksfjørður).
Lund (1928) published the Gephyrea-group
in which the priapulids were included.
The data in the present paper are based
on own identifications based on the mate-
rial from the BIOFAR program and samples
from the work at the Kaldbak Marine Bio-
logical Laboratory, as well as collected infor-
mation from reports and papers about ben-
thic macro fauna in Faroese waters.
In 1988-91 the BIOFAR program sam-
pled more than 600 different stations from
the Faroese region covering depths from
about 100 m to more than 1500 m. A wide
selection of different types of gear was used
to obtain the samples.
For the last ten years, a large number of
seabed samples have been taken in inshore
waters in the Faroe Islands. These are mainly
grab samples (Van-Veen type).
From the region southeast of the Faroe
Islands a number of seabed sample surveys
have been done in relation to environmen-
tal descriptions connected to oil exploration
activities in this area. The surveys were at
depths from 461 m (Kaldbak Marine Biolog-
ical Laboratory, 2006) to 1180 m in the