Baptista, Lara
Berning, Björn
Curto, Manuel
Waeschenbach, Andrea
Meimberg, Harald
Santos, António M.
Ávila, Sérgio P.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (SFRH/BD/135918/2018, IF/00465/2015)
SYNTHESYS+ Project by European Community Research Infrastructure Action (GB-TAF-037, FR-TAF-1902)
Porcupine Marine Natural History Society (Roger Bamber Research Grant for 2022)
International Bryozoology Association (Travel Award 2022)
Article History
Received: 18 August 2022
Accepted: 18 October 2022
First Online: 4 November 2022
Declarations
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: The fresh material from the Azores Archipelago was sampled after permission of the respective authorities in the region (Direção Reginal da Ciência e Tecnologia, Governo Regional dos Açores), who issued the permits CCIP 24/2019/DRCT and 29/2019/DRCT for sampling in Santa Maria Island. Material from the Department of Oceanography and Fisheries (DOP), Marine Molluscs Collection of the Department of Biology of the University of the Azores, CIBIO-InBIO’s marine invertebrate collection, Natural History Museum of London (NHMUK), Senckenberg am Meer (SaM; Wilhelmshaven, Hamburg), and personal collections were loaned with the permission of the curators/holders. All sequences generated by other authors and included in our dataset were retrieved from the publicly available GenBank database (ExternalRef removed).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.