A survey of the marine algae of Milos Island, Greece

The composition of the benthic macroflora was studied in an area of shallow -water gas-hydrothermal vents in the Palaeochori Bay (Milos Island, Aegean Sea). Some species, both taxonomically End biogeographically remarkable, we re collected Tribonema marinum J. Feldmann, Stypopodium schimperi (Buchinge r ex Kutzing) Verlaque et Boudouresque, Amphiroa rubra (Philippi) Woelkerli ng, Cutleria cf. chilosa (Falkenberg) Silva, Womersleyella setacea (Hollenb erg) R.E. Norris). The large number of species with warm-water affinities [ Halopithys incurva (Hudson) Batters, Jania adhaerens Lamouroux, Laurencia m icracladia Kutzing, Tricleocarpa fragilis (Linnaeus) Huisman et Townsend, S typopodium schimperi (Buchinger ex Kutzing) Verlaque et Boudouresque, Zonar ia tournefortii (Lamouroux) Montagne, Anadyomene stellata (Wulfen) C. Agard h, Dasycladus vermicularis (Scopoli) Krasser, Microdictyon tenuius Decaisne ex J. Gray] is mainly due to the southern location of the Miles Island but could be also related to a homogeneous influence of vent activity througho ut the bay. (C) ADAC / Elsevier, Paris.