Decapoda Natantia (Crustacea) in the Faroe Area Decapoda Nantantia (Crustacea) í føroyskum øki
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Abstract
Investigations on the marine benthic fauna of the Faroe Fishery Territory started in 1987 as a Nordic programme called BIOFAR with sampling efforts concentrated on depths deeper than 100 m. After the BIOFAR sampling was concluded in 1993, a new programme called BIOFAR 2 started in 1995 to sample the marine benthic fauna from the intertidal to 100 m depth.
Before BIOFAR 25 species of shrimps and prawns had been reported from the Faroese Fishery Territory. The BIOFAR sampling increased the number of species to 35. For each species the following information is given: the valid name with author and publication year, synonyms, reference to a good description or diagnosis of the species, previous Faroese records, the BIOFAR stations where it was found, area descriptions, depth range, measured temperature range or estimated temperature range of the near-bottom water, breeding or notes on ovigerous females, the type of water mass in which the specimens were caught, and short notes on the distribution and the depth range of the species in the Atlantic Ocean.
Twenty-five species have a hyperbenthic or epibenthic life style, fíve are benthopelagic, and five are meso- or bathypelagic. Seven species are exclusively, and 8-9 additional species are most often recorded from the Faroe plateau or the tops of the banks (0-299 m), 3-4 species are equally often reported from the plateau and the slope (0-999 m), 10-11 species are most often recorded from the slope (300-999 m), and 5-6 species are mostly or only caught in deep water (> 1000 m). Twenty-four species are mostly confmed to »warm« Atlantic Water (> 7 °C), 5 species are mostly from cool Arctic Intermediate Water (1.5-3.5 °C), 4 species are mostly from cold bottom water of the Norwegian Sea, and 2 species are recorded from two or three different water masses.
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