A first quantitative assessment of the ecology of cryptobenthic fishes in the…

Abstract : Cryptobenthic fish communities are a rarely studied and ill-defined component of the marine benthos. Quantitative sampling of seventy-six 1 9 1 m plots at Cape S ˇ ilo, Northern Adriatic Sea, yielded 522 cryptobenthic and 67 epibenthic individuals of 27 species. Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) identified variation of 3 out of 17 habitat variables (depth, presence of bedrock,…