Steuer Ad., 1939. The fishery grounds near Alexandria. XVIII Sipunculoidea, Phoronidea, Brachiopoda, Enteropneusta and Acrania. Notes and Memoirs No. 30. Fouad I Institute of Hydrobioloy and Fisheries, Egypt

Study Extent

This digitized historical dataset is based on a faunistic report compiled from the expedition by the Fisheries Research Directorate in fishery grounds near Alexandria at 1933.

Sampling

This dataset is only a part from a large faunistical expedition (http://ipt.medobis.eu/resource?r=egyptexpeditionpreliminaryrepor) that took place in the coasts near Alexandria. The samples were collected by A. Steuer. For bottom samples almost exclusively a dredge with 20x70 cm opening was used. A single catch was made in a depth of 20 m with a large otter trawl in the eastern part of the Bay of Abukir. In general, the motor-launch of the Marine Laboratory "El Hoot" was used for dredging and a rowing boat in shallow water. All excursions were one-day trips. For planktonic samples only medium sized nets with celluloid buckets with gauze bottom were available. After the expedition, taxonomic identification of the samples was done by specialists. The results of this expedition were published in separate for each taxonomic group volumes. Thus, sampling methods were described in a preliminary report by A. Steuer.

Method steps

1. Adolf Steuer.Preliminary report.The Fishery Grounds Near Alexandria. Notes and Memories No 8.http://ipt.medobis.eu/resource?r=egyptexpeditionpreliminaryrepor

1. Sipuncula
   rank: phylum
2. Enteropneusta
   rank: class
3. Brachiopoda
   rank: phylum
4. Phoronida
   rank: phylum
5. Leptocardii
   rank: class

Sipunculoidea, Phoronidea, Brachiopoda, Enteropneusta and Acrania were found in 52 benthic and 5 planktonic sampling station in the coasts near Alexandria, Egypt, eastern Mediterranean.