New records of marine invertebrates from the coast of Gabon, Eastern Atlantic

Wirtz, Peter; Serval-Roquefort, C.

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Wirtz, Peter

Serval-Roquefort, C.

Abstract(s)

An underwater inventory mission was conducted in November 2017 by six naturalists on the north rocky coast of Gabon between Cape Esterias and Cape Santa Clara. The following twenty-six species are recorded from the coast of Gabon for the first time : the protozoan Zoothamnium niveum, the octocoral Carijoa riisei, the sea anemone Actinostella flosculifera, the plathelmint Pseudobiceros wirtzi, nine opisthobranch molluscs, the polychaete Eurythoe sp., the mudshrimp Neaxius mclaughlinae, seven species of true shrimps, a possibly undescribed pagurid hermit crab, the mantis shrimp Protosquilla sp., the cirriped Conopea saotomensis, and the sea cucumber Isostichopus cf badionotus. For some of these species, this is a large extension of the known range of distribution. The poorly explored coasts of Gabon apparently harbour many still undetected species.