Estudio faunístico del litoral de Blanes. V. Sistemática de moluscos y artrópodos (crustáceos y picnogónidos)

Abstract

Helped by autonomus diving suits, bentonic communitits of asnail Blanes coats area (Gerona) have been studied; they belong to superior infralitoral lewel betwenn the depths of three and twelve mestres. We collected 47 molluscs species, distributed as follows: polyplacophoros 2 species, gasteropods prosobranchia 28 species, gasteropods opistobranchia
3 species, bivalves 14 species. 53 species of arthropods have been studied, 51 corresponding to crustaceans (2 barnacles, 14 decapods, 3 tanaids, 7 isopods and 25 arnphipods) and 2 pycnogonids. Eleven species have been cited for the fust time to be in the catalans coasts. Bionomical and faunistic surveys have been carried out. From these abundant conclusions
have been drace as well as the distribution of the species of the studied areas.