Decapod larvae off Portuguese southern coast, August 2010

Sampling event
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Description

Data is from an oceanographic survey performed from 10 to 18 August of 2010 off the South coast of Portugal. The sampling area was along the coast off Guadiana estuary to Cape S. Vicente between the longitudes 7º 30.0' W and 8º 59.6' W and between the 30 m isobath and 36º 30.0' N. Plankton stations were performed using a Longhurst Hardy Plankton Recorder (LHPR) sampler and Bongo nets. The LHPR was used in 16 stations to collect information on the water column distribution of the species. It was towed at 4 knots on oblique hauls from the surface to near the seabed or around 400 m at the deeper stations. Samples were collected at 25 m depth intervals. Mesh aperture of the collecting net and filtering gauze for all the hauls was 280 µm. A Bongo net with 60 cm diameter aperture and a mesh size of 335 µm was used in all the other stations. Additionally, in every station another oblique haul was performed using a Bongo net with 90 cm diameter aperture and a mesh size of 750 µm diameter. The Bongo nets were towed at depth integrated double oblique hauls at 2 knots from surface to 10 m above bottom or to 200 m at deeper stations. All plankton samples were preserved in 4% borax buffered formaldehyde prepared using seawater and subsequently sorted and analyzed for decapod larvae. The biovolume was determined by displacement volume method (Harris et al., 2000: https://wgze.net/methodology-manual/).

Data Records

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2861
Occurrence 
72965
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
8111

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dos Santos A, Pan M, FT Pires R, Niza H (2025). Decapod larvae off Portuguese southern coast, August 2010. Version 1.13. IPMA - Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera. Samplingevent dataset. http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=medex&v=1.13

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GBIF Registration

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Keywords

Samplingevent

Contacts

Antonina dos Santos
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P. (IPMA)
Lisbon
PT
Maria Pan
  • Originator
Rita FT Pires
  • Originator
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P. (IPMA)
Lisbon
PT
Henrique Niza
  • Metadata Provider
  • User
  • Point Of Contact
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P. (IPMA)
Lisbon
PT

Geographic Coverage

Survey covered the south coast of Portugal, from V.R. Sto António to Cape S. Vicente, having as geographical limits the meridians from 37.085 and 36.500 and the parallels from -09.087 and -7.500.

Bounding Coordinates South West [36.5, -9.087], North East [37.085, -7.5]

Sampling Methods

All plankton samples were preserved in 4% borax buffered formaldehyde prepared using seawater and subsequently sorted and analyzed for decapod larvae. The biovolume was determined by displacement volume method (Harris et al., 2000: https://wgze.net/methodology-manual/).

Study Extent Plankton stations were performed using a Longhurst Hardy Plankton Recorder (LHPR) sampler and Bongo nets.

Method step description:

  1. The LHPR was used in 16 stations to collect information on the water column distribution of the species. It was towed at 4 knots on oblique hauls from the surface to near the seabed or around 400 m at the deeper stations. Samples were collected at 25 m depth intervals. Mesh aperture of the collecting net and filtering gauze for all the hauls was 280 µm. A Bongo net with 60 cm diameter aperture and a mesh size of 335 µm was used in all the other stations. Additionally, in every station another oblique haul was performed using a Bongo net with 90 cm diameter aperture and a mesh size of 750 µm diameter. The Bongo nets were towed at depth integrated double oblique hauls at 2 knots from surface to 10 m above bottom or to 200 m at deeper stations.

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Pires RFT, Pan M, Santos AMP, Peliz A, Boutov D, dos Santos A. 2013. Modelling the variation in larval dispersal of estuarine and coastal ghost shrimp: Upogebia congeners in the Gulf of Cadiz. Marine Ecology Progress Series 492:153-168. DOI: 10.3354/meps10488
  2. Pires R, Pan M, Catalán I, Prieto L, Santos AMP, Faria C, Ferreira S, dos Santos A. 2018. The Atlantic–Mediterranean ecological connection: a study on decapod larval communities. Mediterranean Marine Science 19(3): 477-490. DOI: 10.12681/mms.2006
  3. Bartilotti C, Dos Santos A. 2019. The secret life of deep-sea shrimps: ecological and evolutionary clues from the larval description of Systellaspis debilis (Caridea: Oplophoridae). PeerJ 7: e7334. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.7334
  4. Pires RFT, Peliz A, Pan M, dos Santos A. 2020. “There and back again” − How decapod megalopae find the way home: A modelling exercise for Pachygrapsus marmoratus. Progress in Oceanography 184:102331. DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102331
  5. Pires RFT, Dos Santos A. 2020. Metazooplankton Dynamics in Coastal Upwelling Systems. In: Zooplankton Ecology. CRC Press, p. 142-161. Web: 10.1201/9781351021821-9/metazooplankton-dynamics-coastal-upwelling-systems-rita-pires-antonina-dos-santos
  6. Pires RFT, Peliz A, dos Santos A. 2021. Into the deep – Dispersal models for deep-water decapod shrimp larvae: The case of Parapenaeus longirostris. Progress in Oceanography, 194:102568. DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2021.102568
  7. Rita FT Pires. 2022. Physical-ecological Modelling of the Transport, Dispersal and Connectivity of Crustacean Larvae dispersal in the Gulf of Cadiz and trough the Strait of Gibraltar. PhD Thesis. Universidade de Lisboa. Grant FCT SFRH/BD/139269/2018
  8. Rita F T Pires, Álvaro Peliz, Antonina dos Santos, Dispersal and connectivity modelling simulations for invertebrate larvae passing through the Strait of Gibraltar, ICES Journal of Marine Science, Volume 81, Issue 8, October 2024, Pages 1549–1562. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsae098

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers d5754202-8e49-4a07-a352-332764456f66
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