Dear collegues,

Traditionally, we have applied "amphiatlantic" to benthic taxa only.
[Talavera, F. G., 1982.  Los moluscos gasteròpodos amfiatlànticos (estùdio
paleo y biogeogràfico de las especies bentonicas litorales). Colecciòn
Monografias 10 , Secretariado de Publicaciones de la Universidad de La
Laguna, La Laguna, Canary Is., pp. 1-351.; Vermeij, G. J. and G. Rosenberg,
1993. Giving and receiving: the tropical Atlantic as donor and recipient
region for invading species. Amer. Malac. Bull. 10(2): 181-194. Dec.].

Harry


At 08:31 PM 10/6/99 -0100, you wrote:
>Dear collegues:
>
>I am just finishing a paper about the biogeographical relationships of the
>shallow-water marine molluscs of the Azores and a question as arised.
>Does anyone have a definition for an amphi-Atlantic species? Should we
>consider as amphi-Atlantic the pelagic species like Janthina or Spirula?
>
>Thank you
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Sérgio
>
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