Mohamed Moctar, Sidi M.
Ramos, Ana
de Matos-Pita, Susana S.
Ramil, Fran
Krakstad, Jens-Otto
Article History
Received: 21 November 2019
Revised: 5 March 2020
Accepted: 9 March 2020
First Online: 15 May 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: No animal testing was performed during this study.
: Sampling was carried out in Mauritanian waters in the framework of two regional collaborative surveys of the EAF-Nansen program of the FAO. Official permission to conduct the research was given by the Mauritanian Government.
: Datasets will be published in OBIS using the Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT), developed by GBIF, and metadata will be published as a data paper.
: SMMM and AR conceived the study; all authors carried out the collection of faunistic material and data on-board RV Dr Fridtjof Nansen, under the leadership of JOK; SMMM, SSMP and FR conducted taxonomic identification; SMMM and AR performed biological analyses and led the writing of the manuscript with contributions from all authors; JOK was responsible for the oceanographic data; all authors contributed to the final version of the manuscript and gave final approval for publication.