Report on a dredging expedition off the Louisiana coast, including geographical extensions and new record sizes

摘要

Last August Drs. Darryl Felder and Suzanne Fredericq, members of the Biology Department at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, led a dredging expedition to the north central Gulf of Mexico. The expedition was labeled "Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative" and was part of a study project to assess the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the surrounding marine biota. A preliminary assessment on the mollusks was reported in American Conchologist (2012a). The expedition was sponsored by British Petroleum, and its Primary Investigator was Dr. Nancy Rabalais, Executive Director and Professor at the Louisiana University Marine Consortium, Chauvin, Louisiana.