Oceanic Dispersal and its Seamount Colonization

The neritic mysid Anchialina agile was recorded off the coast and at the Lusitanian and Azores Atlantic seamounts. This mysid indicates sunlight hour’s migration; it become close to the seabackside all through the day and migrated in the direction of the floor waters all through the night. Current advection from the coast to offshore might be the beginning of the huge dispersal of the species from the Iberian and north-African coast to the seamounts.