supported by the ‘Male Projekty Badawcze 2022’(Faculty of Natural Sciences,University of Silesia in Katowice) to Mariusz A. Salamon;financially supported by the statutory activities of the Institute of Botany,Faculty of Biology,Jagiellonian University in Krakow(N18/DBS/000002) to Bartosz J. Plachno;AGH-UST Grant No. 16.16.140.315 to Marcin Krajewski。
The thiolliericrinids(Thiolliericrinidae) are comatulids(Comatulida),which retained their stalks as adults.Here,we report a centrodorsal from the Bajocian strata(Middle Jurassic) of the Djebel Kérdacha area,northwest...
the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDB42000000);the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41930533);the Chinese Academy of Sciences Pioneer Hundred Talents Program(to Nansheng CHEN);the Taishan Scholar Project Special Fund(to Nansheng CHEN)。
One specimen belonging to the family Comatellinae was collected from the Zhenbei Seamount(332.5–478.2 m)in the South China Sea in July 2022.Based on the morphological characters,the specimen was identified as Palaeoc...
The authors appreciate the hard work and help of our friends in the Geological Survey of Iran,North East Territory(GSINET),especially Dr.Jafar Taheri.The authors are especially grateful for the linguistic helps and efforts of Susan Turner(Brisbane).
Spatangoid echinoids belonging to Heteraster found in the Lower Cretaceous limestones and calcareous deposits of the Tirgan and Sarcheshmeh formations(Barremian-Aptian)in the Bahman jan-Bala stratigraphic section on t...
supported by the National Science Centre,Poland(www.ncn.gov.pl)-Grant No.2020/39/B/ST10/00006.
The marl and limestone alternations of the Lower Jurassic Ain Ouarka and Ain Rhezala formations(Pliensbachian-Toarcian)in the western Saharan Atlas,Northwest Algeria,yield a diverse micro-and mac-rofauna,including mod...
We report for the first time the presence of local populations of the starfish Odontaster penicillatus in the regions of Atacama and Antofagasta,Chile.This finding indicates an extension of the distribution limit of 5...
Supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Nos.XDA23050501,XDA19060201);the Key Program for International S&T Cooperation Projects:Sino-Australian Center for Healthy Coasts(No.2016YFE0101500);the Shandong Joint Fund for Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences(No.U1606404);the Taishan Scholars Project to SUN Song。
Ophiopholis mirabilis is a common species with a high population density on the western coasts of the northern Pacifi c Ocean.The number of O.mirabilis has been increasing recently in the scallop aquaculture zone(the ...
The Ocean Public Welfare Scientific Research Project,State Oceanic Administration of the People’s Republic of China under contract No.201505004;the State Key Development Program of Basic Research of China under contract No.2015CB755902
Porcellanasteridae is a group of starfish that live in the deep ocean around the world. The type species of this family, Porcellanaster ceruleus Wyville Thomson, 1878, is cosmopolitan as well as polymorphic. The first...
The National Basic Research Program(973 Program)of China under contract No.2015CB755902;the Foundation of China Ocean Mineral Resources R&D Association under contract Nos DY135-E2-2-03 and DY135-E2-2-06;the Scientific Research Fund of the Second Institute of Oceanography,SOA under contract No.JG1537;the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No.41406175
The rare ophiuroid species, Ophioleila elegans, was collected by the submersible Jiaolongfrom 1 660 m depth on the Caiwei Guyot located in the Magellan Seamount Chain in the Northwest Pacific Ocean. This is the first ...
The Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences under contract Nos XDA11020403 and XDA1102702;the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences under contract No.KZZD-EW-14;the Science and Technology Service Network Initiative Program under contract No.KFJ-EW-STS-127;the self-deployment project of Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research,Chinese Academy of Sciences under contract No.YICY755021012
To obtain baseline information on the size distribution of individuals in the population and reproductive features of sea star Asterias amurensis, monthly surveys of the population were carried out from May to Decembe...
The present investigation focuses on population structure analysis of the purple sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus across the African Mediterranean coast, with the main aim of assessing the influence of the Siculo-Tuni...