Comparison of the community structure of the marine molluscs of the “Banco D. João de Castro” seamount (Azores, Portugal) with that of typical inshore habitats on the Azores archipelago

Table 8 Number of caenogastropod species and mode of development

Dev	DJC^a	RQT	CAP^b	SMG^c	AZO^d	ORM^e	ROC^f	NOR^f	TRI^f	MAR^f
np	8	5	21	35	37	11	50	57	39	15
p	17	5	21	41	42	14	25	48	38	11
Unknown	4	0	7	39	45	0	3	5	0	0
# Caen	29	10	49	115	124	25	78	110	77	26
# Total	42	10	71	223	347	36	–	–	–	–

np non-planktotrophic, p planktotrophic, # Caen number of caenogastropods, # Total total number of molluscan taxa, ORM Ormonde seamount (Gorringe bank), ROC Atol das Rocas, NOR Fernando de Noronha, TRI Trindade Island, MAR Martin Vaz; other abbreviations as in Table 1
^aÁvila (1997); Ávila et al. (2004)
^bÁvila (2003)
^cÁvila et al. (2000)
^dÁvila (2000a, b, c, 2005)
^eÁvila and Malaquias (2003)
^fLeal (1991)

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