Journal article
Taxonomy, ecology and biogeographical trends of dominant benthic foraminifera species from an atlantic-mediterranean estuary (The guadiana, southeast portugal)
SG Camacho, DM De Jesus Moura, S Connor, DB Scott, T Boski
Palaeontologia Electronica | Published : 2015
DOI: 10.26879/512
Abstract
This study analyses the taxonomy, ecology and biogeography of the species of benthic foraminifera living on the intertidal margins of the Guadiana Estuary (SE Portugal, SW Spain). Of the 54 taxa identified during sampling campaigns in winter and summer, 49 are systematically listed and illustrated by scanning electron microscope (SEM) photographs. Ammonia spp. were the most ubiquitous calcareous taxa in both seasons. Morphological analysis and SEM images suggested three distinct morphotypes of the genus Ammonia, two of which proved to be Ammonia aberdoveyensis on the basis of partial rRNA analyses. Jadammina macrescens and Miliammina fusca were the most ubiquitous agglutinated taxa in the es..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank to L. Pereira and P. Santana for technical assistance with field survey and J. Nieto and C. Cantero from Huelva University, for providing excellent MEV photography service. We are also grateful to M. Holzmann, from Geneva University, for kindly accepting our foraminifera in the Foram Barcoding project and for sharing the results and knowledge, and to the Editor P. Polly, to Dr F. Frontalini and one anonymous reviewer, who greatly improved the original manuscript with their advices. The present work was financially supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through a PhD grant SFRH/BD/28265/2006.