Preliminary Species Inventory for the Faial-Pico Channel

 

Algae - 165

Rhodophycota – 97
Chromophycota – 40
Chlorophycota – 28

Porifera – 95

Cnidaria – 47

Ctenophora – 4

Platyhelminthes - 2

Echiura – 1

Annelida – 25

Crustacea – 93 (Note: missing plankton trawling data)

Mollusca – 160

Bryozoa – 68

Phoronida – 1

Echinodermata – 20

Tunicata – 10

Pisces – 111 (Note: missing many mesopelagic, ictioplankton, fish caught in demersal fisheries deeper than 40m)

Mammalia – 12

 

NOTE: These are provisional and conservative figures as comprehensive inventories that thouroughly analyse historical literature are not available for most groups.