Les plages de sable fin , en mode battu , du delta du Rhône recèlent des peuplements d' Invertébrés très mobiles dont 1a répartition est profondément altérée dès qu'interviennent de fortes perturbations de certains facteurs abiotiques. Chaque espèce subsiste alors dans les "espaces refuges ", mais revient très rapidement à sa localisation d’origine lorsque cesse la perturbation. La distribution des Crustacés est donnée suivant les différents Etages bionorrriques , avec 1a localisation précise des espèces en fonction de leurs propres exigences. Sur quinze espèces vivant habituellement dans ces milieux extrêmes , huit d’entre elles étaient mal connues ou inconnues sur les côtes françaises méditerranéennes.
Over the last two decades, several works on the family Ampeliscidae have been published, in particular about three of the four genera in the family: Ampelisca, Byblis, and Haploops. Recently, additional material collected during the BIOFAR sampling around the Faeroe Islands and during the BIOICE sampling around Iceland, in the Bay of Biscay and the EUMELI 2 campaign along the African coasts were examined. The genus Haploops was numerous (.3500 individuals), and within this material were interesting specimens. Six of them, found at four stations about 100 km off Mauritania, have been recognized as Haploops lodo (Barnard, 1961) a bathyal and abyssal species previously seen only in the Pacific ocean offshore of the American coasts. In this article, an Atlantic H. lodo specimen representative of the Atlantic specimens is compared to the holotype. The geographical and bathymetric distribution of H. lodo in the depths of the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans are discussed.
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