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Checklist of benthic foraminifera (class Foraminifera: d’Orbigny 1826; phylum Granuloreticulosa) from Saros Bay, northern Aegean Sea: a biodiversity hotspot

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Calcareous and agglutinated benthic foraminiferal diversity was investigated in the central Northern Aegean Sea. A total of 18 samples were collected along a neritic to mid-bathyal transect in Saros Bay at water depths ranging from 15 to 500 m. This study reveals a very highly diversified benthic foraminiferal fauna composed of 267 species belonging to 115 genera. Benthic foraminiferal taxa varied along the depth transect, and it is possible to recognise benthic foraminiferal assemblages typical for different bathymetric ranges. An inner–middle neritic assemblages (ca. <100 m depth), outer neritic assemblages (ca. 100–200 m), and upper bathyal assemblages (200–500 m) are defined. On the basis of the available foraminiferal literature on the Aegean Sea coupled with our data from Saros Bay, a very high number of foraminiferal species is estimated to occur in this basin. A total of 799 species belonging to 276 genera, 93 families and 43 superfamilies have been recorded in the Aegean Sea. These values are remarkably higher than those documented in previous foraminiferal studies carried out in different parts of the Mediterranean Sea. Although the determination of the total foraminiferal diversity in the Mediterranean Sea remains a difficult task, we speculate that this number may be in excess of 1,000.

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The research for this paper was partially made possible by the financial support from the PRIN 2010–2011 Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (MIUR) (protocollo 2010RMTLYR). MAK thanks A.E. Aksu (Memorial University of Newfoundland) and the Captain and crew of the R/V “Piri Reis” for the opportunity to collect samples in Saros Bay. The authors are also grateful to Philippe Recourt for managing the SEM picture at University of Lille 1. We are particularly grateful to two anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful and valuable comments that have greatly improved the paper.

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, della Vita e dell’Ambiente (DiSTeVA), Università degli Studi “Carlo Bo”, Campus Scientifico, Località Crocicchia, 61029, Urbino, Italy

    Fabrizio Frontalini

  2. Department of Earth Sciences, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

    Michael A. Kaminski

  3. Department of Earth Sciences, UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

    Michael A. Kaminski & Ioulietta Mikellidou

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    Ioulietta Mikellidou

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Appendix 1

Water depth and geographical coordinates of the sampling stations. (XLSX 11 kb)

Appendix 2

Relative abundances of benthic foraminiferal species and faunal indices. Faunal indices are calculated using the PAST (PAlaeontological STatistics) data analysis package (version 1.68, Hammer et al. 2001). (XLS 107 kb)

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Averaged relative abundances of benthic foraminiferal species according to the bathymetric distribution along inner-middle (I-M) neritic, outer (O) neritic and upper bathyal (UB) depths. (XLS 63 kb)

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Benthic foraminiferal species list as recognized in the whole Aegean Sea. (XLS 227 kb)

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Frontalini, F., Kaminski, M.A., Mikellidou, I. et al. Checklist of benthic foraminifera (class Foraminifera: d’Orbigny 1826; phylum Granuloreticulosa) from Saros Bay, northern Aegean Sea: a biodiversity hotspot. Mar Biodiv 45, 549–567 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-014-0238-z

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