Baptista, Vânia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1428-3334
Encarnação, João http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2105-6639
Serrão, Ester A. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1316-658X
Wirtz, Peter
Pestana, Lueji Barros http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4824-5480
Faria, Silvana
Teodósio, Maria Alexandra http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0939-9885
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (SFRH/BD/140556/2018, UIDB/04326/2020, 333191101)
Aga Khan Foundation (333191101)
Article History
Received: 30 October 2020
Revised: 26 February 2021
Accepted: 2 March 2021
First Online: 12 March 2021
Declarations
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: All the study was conducted in accordance with the Guidelines of the Angolan legislation for the use of animals: Law on Aquatic Biological Resources (Law No. 6-A /04, 8 October) and Regulation of Scientific Research on Angolan Aquatic Biological Resources and the Continental Shelf of Angola (Decree 38/05, 3 June). CCMAR team members are certified to house and conduct experiments with live animals, and their facilities are also certified in accordance with the three “R” policy, national and European legislation, and with guidelines defined by the ethical committee ORBEA CCMAR-CBMR. However, in the present work, the species were identified from photographs taken during SCUBA diving surveys.
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: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.