Open AccessMOLLUSCS ANT THEIR TAXOCOENOSIS IN SHALLOW BOTTOMS OF THE SOUTHERN PAT OF THE CONTINENTAL SHELF OF THE COLOMBIAN CARIBBEAN
Author(s) -
Carolina García Valencia,
Juan Manuel Díaz
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
boletin de investigaciones marinas y costeras/boletín de investigaciones marinas y costeras
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.177
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2590-4671
pISSN - 0122-9761
DOI - 10.25268/bimc.invemar.2000.29.0.315
Subject(s) - continental shelf , abundance (ecology) , oceanography , sediment , geography , geology , fishery , biology , paleontology
During a baseline survey of the shallow bottoms (10-50 m) of the southern continental shelf of the Colombian Caribbean, a total of 35 molluscan species belonging to 24 families was collected. Three main molluscan bottom assemblages were recognized according to species composition and abundance, whose distribution seems likely to be controlled rather by depth than by sediment features. Twenty four of the species were not recorded before from this area of the Colombian Caribbean.