Mesophotic reef fish assemblages of the remote St. Peter and St. Paul’s Archipelago, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Brazil

Coral Reefs

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 113-123

  Rosa, Marcos Rogerio ^a   Alves, Aline Cristina ^b   Medeiros, Diego Valverde ^b   Coni, Ericka Oliveira Cavalcanti ^c   Ferreira, Camilo Moitinho ^c   Ferreira, Beatrice Padovani ^d   de Souza Rosa, Ricardo ^b   Amado Filho, Gilberto Menezes ^e   Pereira Filho, Guilherme Henrique ^f   de Moura, Rodrigo Leão ^g   Thompson, Fabiano Lopes ^g   Sumida, Paulo Yukio Gomes ^a   Francini Filho, Ronaldo Bastos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^e INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS JARDIM BOTÂNICO DO RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^g FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Black corals; Bodianus insularis; Mesophotic reefs; Oceanic islands; Prognathodes obliquus; Stegastes sanctipauli

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALGA; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CORAL REEF; ISLAND; MACROALGA; PERCIFORM; PLANKTIVORE; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLE; SPONGE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRAZIL; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; MINNESOTA; SAINT PAUL; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; ANTIPATHARIA; BODIANUS INSULARIS; BRYOZOA; CARANX LUGUBRIS; CHROMIS MULTILINEATA; MELICHTHYS NIGER; PROGNATHODES; SCLERACTINIA; STEGASTES SANCTIPAULI;

EID: 84958763722     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-015-1368-x     Document Type: Article

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