Author/Editor		Belcari, Paola; Tserpes, George; Gonzalez, Maria; Lefkaditou, Eugenia; Marčeta, Bojan; Piccinetti-Manfrin, Gabriella; Souplet, Arnauld
Title		Distribution and abundace of Eledone cirrhosa (Lamarck, 1798) and E. moschata (Lamarck, 1978) (Cephalopoda: Octopoda) in the Mediterranean sea
Type		članek
Source		Sci Mar
Vol. and No.		Letnik 66, št. Suppl 2
Publication year		2002
Volume		str. 143-55
Language		eng
Abstract		Information on distribution, abundance and size composition of the two octopods Eledone cirrhosa and E. moschata was obtained from the MEDITS trawl surveys, carried out in a wide area of the Mediterranean basin from 1994 to 1999. Both species showed a wide geographic distribution, as they were collected in all the major areas investigated. E. cirrhosa showed a wide depth distribution, down to the 800 m isobath, while E. moschata was mostly restricted to within 200 m. Further analysis on spatio-temporal basis with a Generalised Linear Model, evidenced that differences among major areas, depth strata and their interaction were always significant. In the case of E. cirrhosa, differences among years and yearmajor area interaction were also significant. Two cohorts can be singled out in the size frequency distributions of E. cirrhosa, whereas only one mode can be clearly distinguished in most of the length distributions of E. moschata.
Descriptors		SEAWATER POPULATION DENSITY MOLLUSCA MEDITERRANEAN SEA LINEAR MODELS ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE