In situ observation of sexual reproduction of Holothuria tubulosa Gmelin 1788 (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) in the Azores (NE Atlantic) (original) (raw)

The aspidochirote Holothuria tubulosa Gmelin, 1788 is widely distributed in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic from Gibraltar to the Bay of Biscay (Tortonese 1965). It lives on rocky substrata, soft sediments and phanaerogam seagrass beds, in depths that vary between 5 m and 100 m, being one of the predominant species of the benthic macrofauna in the Posidonia oceanica meadows (Boudouresque and Meinesz 1982).

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