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Northward range expansion of Leptogorgia dakarensis and Eunicella racemosa (Cnidaria: Gorgoniidae: Anthozoa) in the Eastern Atlantic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2023

Jaouad Abou Oualid Open the ORCID record for Jaouad Abou Oualid [Opens in a new window] ,
Aicha Ait Alla Open the ORCID record for Aicha Ait Alla [Opens in a new window] ,
Abdellatif Moukrim  and
Pablo J. López-González
Jaouad Abou Oualid*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Aquatic Systems: Marine and Continental Environments, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Zohr University, PO Box 8106, Dakhla, Agadir, Morocco
Aicha Ait Alla
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Aquatic Systems: Marine and Continental Environments, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Zohr University, PO Box 8106, Dakhla, Agadir, Morocco
Abdellatif Moukrim
Affiliation:
Faculty of Sciences, Abdelamalek Essadi University, Tetouan, Morocco
Pablo J. López-González
Affiliation:
Biodiversidad y Ecología Acuática, Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
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Author for correspondence: Jaouad Abou Oualid, E-mail: j.abououalid@uiz.ac.ma
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Abstract

Identifying species and updating marine biodiversity is fundamental to understanding the evolution of ecosystems and adopting appropriate management strategies. These ecosystems are threatened by climate change causing species mobility, mortality, etc. An important zoological group in the marine ecosystem, octocoral gorgonians have a wide geographic and bathymetric distribution. However, the knowledge of their presence on the Atlantic West African coasts remains limited. Herein, we note the accurate geographic distribution of two species, Leptogorgia dakarensis (Stiasny, 1936) and Eunicella racemosa (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857), reporting their northern distributional limits. The gaps in the previous knowledge hypothesis of the oceanic warming effects explaining the northward mobility of these species are discussed here.

Keywords

Climate changeEastern AtlanticEunicella racemosaLeptogorgia dakarensisnorthward extent
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Marine Record
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 103 , 2023 , e10
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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