Document of dataset 5816

Dataset record

Type
Dataset
title in English
Register of Antarctic Species
Acronym
RAS
Description in English
Antarcic biodiversity is endemic, and more diverse and biogeographically structued than previously thought. Interests in understanding species distribution, mechanisms driving spatial pattern of Antarctic species, as well as significance of underexplored taxons is rapidly growing. Human impacts, nevertheless, pose challenges to current and future understanding of Antarctic biodiversity and conservation.
Register of Antarctic Species (RAS) aims to provide an authorative and comprehensive list of names of marine and terrestrial species in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. It serves as a reference guide for users to intepret taxonomic literature, as valid names and other names in use are both provided.
Taxonomic experts and database managers both contribute to the maintenance and development of RAS. The editorial management system of RAS works to ensure that quality information is presented, as an expert is responsible for each taxonomic group.
Information of marine taxons hosted on RAS is consistent with that in World Register of Marine Species, as information of terrestrial taxons grows on an independent process.
The RAS Editorial Board strives to maintain the website a comprehensive and up-to-date resource. Please contact us if you detect any error or omission. Authors are encouraged to send copies of publications to respective editors with details of new or revised nomenclature.
Abstract in English
A checklist of Antarctic species, compiled by taxonomic experts and based on peer-reviewed literature.
License
https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html
bibliographicCitation
RAS (Eds.) (2025). Register of Antarctic Species. Accessed at https://ras.biodiversity.aq on yyyy-mm-dd

Temporal coverage

Temporal
Start date
1758-01-01

Geographical coverage

Spatial
PS, Antarctica

Thesaurus terms

Keyword
Classification
Species
Taxonomy

Themes

theme
Biology
Biology > Ecology - biodiversity

Ownerships

contributor
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
contributor
Elise Biersma
contributor
Simone Brandão
contributor
Peter Convey
contributor
Claude De Broyer
contributor
Rachel Downey
contributor
Hauke Flores
contributor
Ian Hogg
contributor
Christian Jersabek
contributor
Sandra J. McInnes
contributor
Faradina Merican
contributor
Volker Siegel
contributor
Cath Waller
contributor
Anton Van de Putte
contactPoint
Anton Van de Putte
contributor
Anton Van de Putte

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A collection of Antarctic Nemertea
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A collection of Antarctic Phipoda
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Aeolian microbial dispersal limitation to Antarctica (2017)
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Airborne Bacteria from Miers Valley, Antarctica
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algal_mat_microbiome_east_antarctica
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Amphipoda Hyperiidea of the Southern Ocean: catalogue and occurrences
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Amundsen Sea Mollusca from the BIOPEARL II expedition
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Annelid Fauna of the Prince Gustav Channel, a previously ice-covered seaway on the northeastern Antarctic Peninsula - Data
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Antarctic Amphipod Crustaceans: Ant'Phipoda Database (BIANZO)
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Antarctic Amphipoda
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Antarctic and Subantarctic Asteroid zoogeography
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Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Asteroidea database 2017
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Antarctic and sub-Antarctic Lophogastrida occurrences
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Antarctic and SubAntarctic Ophiuroidea - MNA (Section of Genoa)
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Antarctic Arrow worms
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Antarctic cryosphere fungal diversity (2015)
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Antarctic cryptoendolithic fungal communities ITS amplicon sequencing
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Antarctic Echinoids: an interactive database
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Antarctic Euphausiacea occurence data from "German Antarctic Marine Living Resources" (GAMLR) Expeditions
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Antarctic Euphausiacea occurence data from Norwegian Antarctic Research Expedition 1976-77
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Antarctic Euphausiacea occurence data from Polish FIBEX expeditions
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Antarctic Euphausiacea occurrence data from ITALICA 2000 Expedition
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Antarctic Euphausiacea occurrence data from Norwegian Antarctic Research Expedition 1979
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Antarctic fish Gobionotothen gibberifrons
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Antarctic Foraminiferans
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Antarctic Isopods
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Antarctic Jellyfish
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Antarctic Krill Euphausia superba
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Antarctic Krill occurrence data from Australian expeditions
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Antarctic Krill occurrence data from BAS expeditions
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Antarctic Krill occurrence data from Discovery expeditions
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Antarctic Krill occurrence data from Japanese expeditions
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Antarctic Krill occurrence data from Spanish RV "Fruela"
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Antarctic Krill occurrence data from Ukraine YUGNIRO Institute
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Antarctic Krill occurrence data from US AMLR "US Antarctic Marine Living Resources" Program
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Antarctic macrobenthic communities: A compilation of circumpolar information
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Antarctic Marine Amoebae
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Antarctic Marine Bacteria from Denmark University
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Antarctic Marine Species Sequence Data
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Antarctic Nemertea
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Antarctic pack ice Bacterial (16S) communities
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Antarctic Parborlasia corrugatus
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Antarctic Penguin Biogeography Project: Database of abundance and distribution for the Adélie, chinstrap, gentoo, emperor, macaroni, and king penguin south of 60 S
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Antarctic Peninsula Bacterioplankton 16S rRNA gene surveys and metagenomes from Winter 2002 and Summer 2006.
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Antarctic polar desert surface soil microbiome
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Antarctic Pycnogonids II
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Antarctic Rotifera literature review
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Antarctic snow algae communities
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Antarctic Starfish (Echinodermata: asteroidea) from the ANDEEP3 expedition
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Antarctic Surface Snow Bacterial Communities
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Antarctic, Sub-Antarctic and cold temperate echinoid database
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ANTAVIA TrackingKing
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Ant'Phipoda Database (New records)
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ANTXXIII-8 Birds and Mammals
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Archaea from the ANDEEP3 expedition
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Arctic multi-year sea ice Bacteria
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Arctic Ocean microbial metagenomes sampled aboard CGC Healy during the 2015 GEOTRACES Arctic research cruise
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Argentina–Chile National Geographic Pristine Seas Expedition To The Antarctic Peninsula - Deep Sea Cam Data
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Associated microbiome (Bacteria and Fungi) in Antarctic sea stars (healthy versus exhibiting epidermal disease)
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Asteroids, ophiuroids and holothurians from the South-Eastern Weddell Sea (Southern Ocean)
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Bacteria (16S ssu rRNA) in an Antarctic snow sample
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Bacteria (16S) and Eukaryotes (18S) from the Sor Rondane Mountains (East Antarctica)
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Bacteria (16S) in Antarctic terrestrial soils of the Sor Rondane Mountains
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Bacteria (16S) in growth laminae of a large conical mats from Lake Untersee, East Antarctic
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Bacteria and Archaea biodiversity in Arctic and Subarctic terrestrial ecosystems in Alaska
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Bacteria and Archaea biodiversity in Arctic terrestrial ecosystems affected by climate change in Northern Siberia
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Bacteria and Archaea biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems of Chilean Patagonia
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Bacteria and Archaea in different soil types on King George Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica)
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Bacteria and chlorophyll-a water column observations (surface to ~150m), April-August 2001, Continental Margin Western Antarctic Peninsula, GLOBEC
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Bacteria from Penguin Guano, Antarctica
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Bacteria in Antarctic glacial foreland soils
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Bacteria on mummified seals in the Antarctic Dry Valleys
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Bacterial community during Phaeocystis antarctica blooms (Amundsen Sea polynya)
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Bacterial Diversity Assessment in Antarctic Terrestrial and Aquatic Microbial Mats
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Bacterial diversity in closed cryoconite holes in Southern Victoria Land (Antarctica)
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Bacterial in the Amundsen Sea Polynya (Southern Ocean): community composition in environmental samples and mesocosm experiment
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Bacterioplankon from lakes on Byers Peninsula (2008)
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Bacterioplankton in surface waters off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula
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BCCM/ULC Cyanobacteria culture collection at the University of Liège (ISO9001 certified)
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benthic communities bacterial in Antarctica and the arctic
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Benthic microbial communities (Bacteria, 16S) of coastal terrestrial and ice shelf Antarctic meltwater ponds
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Biogeographic distribution of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic Cumacea
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Biogeographic distribution of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic Mysida
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Biogeographic distribution of the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic brachiopods (living forms)
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Biopearl expedition: SeaStars (Echinodermata, Asteroidea)
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Bryozoa collection of the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA) - Data
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Carotenoid producing bacteria from Antarctica
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CCAMLR historic KRILL
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CEAMARC Eastern Antarctic Gelatinous Mesozooplankton (Cnidaria and Ctenophora)
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Circumpolar dataset of sequenced specimens of Promachocrinus kerguelensis (Echinodermata, Crinoidea)
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Collections data on ecology of bottom animal of the Southern ocean
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Community diversity in microbial eukaryotes from lakes in the the Vestfold Hills, Antarctica
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Cyanobacteria in microbial mats from Antarctic lakes
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cyanobacterial mats of from the Byers Peninsula, Antarctica
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Distribution records of Amphipoda based on the collection stored at the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA)
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Distributional records of Ross Sea (Antarctica) planktonic Copepoda from bibliographic data and samples curated at the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA)
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Distributional records of sea cucumbers (Echinodermata, Holothuroidea) based on the collection stored at the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA, section of Genoa)
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DNA metabarcoding of the prey and microbiome of museum specimen Antarctic trematomid fishes
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East Weddell Sea echinoids from the JR275 expedition
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Echinoids_Kerguelen_Plateau_1872_2015
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Echinoids_occurrences_Southern_Ocean
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Epipelagic mesozooplankton distribution and abundance in Southern Ocean Atlantic sector and the North Atlantic and Arctic 1996-2013
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EPOS3: SeaStars (Echinodermata, Asteroidea)
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Evidence of a Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem documented via tourist submarine off Cape Well-Met, Vega Island, Eastern Antarctic Peninsula (Subarea 48.1) - data
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fumarolic microbial communities at Tramway Ridge, Mt. Erebus, Antarctica
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Fungal communities (ITS) in Antarctic brines.
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Fungi (LSU) in soils from the South Shetland island, Antarctic Peninsula island, and Union Glacier
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Geomicrobiology of Antarctic Subglacial Environments - Subglacial Lake Whillans
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Geothermal Fumarole Subsurface Mt. Erebus, Antarctica
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Global biogeography of desert cyanobacteria
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Gut content of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba from the West Antarctic Peninsula
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Heterotrophic bacterial diversity in aquatic microbial mat communities from Antarctica
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High gene flow in polar cod (Boreogadus saida) from West-Svalbard and the Eurasian Basin - Occurrence Data
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Hypolithic and soil bacteria in Miers_Valley, Antarctica
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Icota - Pelagant
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Improving Species-Based Area Protection in Antarctica - data
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In situ observations of Stygiomedusa gigantea
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Inter-Valley Soil Comparative Survey of the McMurdo Dry Valleys
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Invertebrates from the ANTARXXVII Leg1 expedition to the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica - data
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Isopoda of the Southern Ocean: New Records from the Ross Sea Area by the National Antarctic Museum (MNA) Genoa Section
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ITS samples from the air and snow of Livingston Island
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Krill abundance, vertical and horizontal distribution (MOCNESS system), April-June 2001-02, continental margin west of Antarctic Peninsula, GLOBEC
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KRILLBASE_antarctickrillssalpsdensity_1926_2016
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Lissarca notorcadensis BAS CAML
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Macrozooplankton concentrations estimated from MOCNESS tow samples, Continental Margin Western Antarctic Peninsula, GLOBEC
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Marine bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbial communities on the continental shelf of the western Antarctic Peninsula
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Marine bacterioplankton community structure in the vicinity of Antarctic icebergs
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Marine birds and mammals of the Southern Ocean (a census for the CAML)
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Marine mammals on the INACH expeditions
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Marine_ microbial eukaryotes (18S) from the Ross Sea (Antarctica)
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Maritime and Sub-Antarctic microbial soil fungi communities
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Metagenome assembly of an Amundsen Sea (Antarctica, Southern Ocean) water sample
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Metatranscriptome from microbial mats in Arctic and Antarctic polar tundra environments
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Microbes (16S and 18S rRNA genes) from benthic Antarctic sediments
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Microbes (Eukaryotes and Archaea) in sea water from Fildes Peninsula (King George Island, Antarctica)
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Microbial (16S) diversity in sediments of the former subglacial Hodgson lake (Antarctica)
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Microbial (Bacteria, 16S) Diversity in Antarctic marine sediments (Admiralty Bay and Bransfield Strait)
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Microbial communities (Bacteria and Archaea) in Lake Fryxell (Antarctica) along an oxygen gradient
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Microbial communities (Bacteria, Eukaryotes and Fungi) in Arctic, Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic lacustrine biofilms
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Microbial communities (Eukaryotes and Bacteria) of transiently wetted vs. arid Antarctic Dry Valley soils
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Microbial communities in colored snow from Fildes Peninsula (King George Island, Maritime Antarctica, 2017)
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Microbial diversity (Bacteria and Archaea 16S rRNA gene) in geothermal sites of Deception Island volcano, Antarctica
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microbial Eukaryotes in lakes along an Argentinian-Antarctic geographical gradient
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Microbial fungal communities (18S) of Antarctic Dry Valley lakes
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Microbial Fungi in soils on different Sub-Antarctic islands
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Microbial metabarcoding surveys (Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryota) of the arctic marine environment
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Microbial population dynamics along a terrestrial Antarctic moisture gradient
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Microbial soil Fungi (ITS2) diversity from Maritime Antarctica
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Microbiome (Archaea, Bacteria and Eukaryota) of lake Fryxell and lake Bonney (McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica)
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Microbiome (Archaea, Bacteria and Fungi) in soils from King George Island (Antarctica)
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Microbiome (Bacteria, Archaea and fungi) from University Valley Permafrost cores (Antarctica)
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Microbiome diversity in the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica
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Microorganisms (Bacteria 16S; Eukaryota 18S) from soil crusts in polar (Arctic and Antarctic) ecosystems
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Microorganisms (Bacteria and Archaea) in the marine cavity beneath the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica
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Microorganisms (Bacteria, Archaea and phototroph eukaryotes) from Fildes Bay, King George Island, Antarctica
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Microorganisms (eukaryote and bacteria) in Antarctic cryoconite holes.
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Microorganisms in frost flowers on young Arctic sea ice, comparison between different ice types
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Microorganisms in Paleomats at the shores of lake Vanda, Antarctica
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Mitochondrial lineages in the Antarctic sea slug Doris kerguelenensis
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MNA (Section of Genoa) and NIWA Invertebrate Collection - Ross Sea Tanaidacea
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MNA (Section of Genoa) associated collection of CCFEE (Tuscia University) - Antarctic Fungi
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MNA CIBAN Italian Antarctic Bacterial Culture Collection
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Mollusca collected by Agassiz trawl from the 2016 SO-AntEco Expedition to the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica - data
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Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN), Buenos Aires: sea stars collection (Asteroidea, Echinodermata)
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Myctobase, a circumpolar database of mesopelagic fishes for new insights into deep pelagic prey fields - data
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Near‐shore microbial communities (Eukaryotes, Bacteria and Archaea) of the sub‐Antarctic Prince Edward Islands
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Nemertina World Checklist
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New Zealand Terrestrial Biocomplexity Survey
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Palmer LTER 2014 cruise microbial Eukaryote (18s) plankton
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Pelagic microbes (Eukaryote 18S and Material 16S amplicons) from sites in the Southern, Indian and Arctic Oceans
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Penguins of Antarctica
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Photodocumentation_of_Antarctic_Peninsula_Lichens
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Planktonic, benthic and sympagic copepods collected in the desalination unit during the XXXIVth Expedition of the Italian National Antarctic Program (PNRA)
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PolE At Sea Observations of Birds and Marine Mammals during PS 81 (ANT-XXIX/4)
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Porifera collection of the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA) - Data
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Promachocrinus kerguelensis
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Protist diversity in a permanently ice-covered Antarctic Lake during the polar night transition
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RNA-Virome (RNA shotgun sequencing) from lake Limnopolar on Livingston Island (Antarctica)
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Ross Sea mollusca from Italica 2004
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Ross Sea Pycnogonids
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SCAR Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean - Antarctic free-living marine Nematodes - Data
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SCAR Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean - Benthic Hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) - data
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SCAR Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean - Benthic Ostracoda - Data
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SCAR Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean - foraminifera- Data
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SCAR Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean - Lophogastrida and Mysida (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida) of the Southern Ocean - Data
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SCAR Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean - macroalgae - Data
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SCAR Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean - Porifera - Data
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SCAR Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean - Tanaidacea - Data
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SCAR Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean - Tintinnid Ciliates of the Southern Ocean - Data
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SCAR Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean -Harpacticoida (Crustacea: Copepoda)
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Sea cucumbers (Echinodemata, Holothuroidea) from the JR275 expedition to the Eastern Weddell Sea, Antarctica - Data
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Sea spiders (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) from ten recent research expeditions to the Antarctic Peninsula, Scotia Arc and Weddell Sea - data
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Sequenced genes (ureC gene) and a metagenome from Archaea in Arctic and Antarctic marine environments
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Soil microbiome (Bacteria) on Keller Peninsula (Antarctica)
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SOMBASE - Southern Ocean mollusc database: a tool for biogeographic analysis in diversity and evolution
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SO-Polylist
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Southern Ocean Cnidarian Collections
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Southern Ocean Experimental Metatranscriptome to Investigate Micronutrient Colimitation
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Southern Ocean microbial dataset
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Southern Ocean octopus
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Southern Ocean oligochaete occurrence data - a literature-based compilation
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Southern Ocean Ostracoda (except Halocypridina)
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SOVIET ANTARCTIC EXPEDITIONS for Zooplankton (R.V. OB March-May 1956, January-March 1957;R.V.ACADEMIC KURCHATOV, October 1971-January 1972; RV DMITRY MENDELEEV;R.V.ACADEMIC IOFFE 1992)
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Stable isotope ratios and elemental contents of C, N and S in benthic organisms sampled during the PROTEKER 5 summer campaign in Kerguelen Islands (2016) - data
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Stable isotope ratios of C, N and S in Southern Ocean sea stars (1985-2017)
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Staying cool also has consequences: increased sea ice cover disrupts food web structure in East Antarctica-Data
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Surface and deep marine bacterial communities in the Arctic and Antarctic
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Synoicum_adareanum_microbiome
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Tagged Seal Location Data from SOGLOBEC
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The Belgica 121 expedition to the Western Antarctic Peninsula: a high resolution biodiversity census
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The First Comprehensive Description of the Biodiversity and Biogeography of Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Intertidal Communities
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The Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking (Standardised) Data from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
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The skin microbiome (based on 16S) of Antarctic Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)
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V3-V4 16S rDNA of soil bacteria in King George Island and Deception Island
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virome_antarctic_lakes_2010
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Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem Indicator Taxa recorded by submarine as evidence of the presence of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems, Antarctic Peninsula - data
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Walter Herwig 1978 (FFS): SeaStars (Echinodermata, Asteroidea)
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Weddell Sea macrozoobenthos EASIZ I
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Western Antarctic Peninsula Bacteria (Mesocosm exp.)
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Winter Picoplankton Diversity and Distribution in the US Antarctic Marine Living Resources Study Area - Northern Antarctic Peninsula
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Zooplankton abundance and population structures assessed during April-September of 2001-2, Southern Ocean, GLOBEC
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Zooplankton Abundance Based on Taxa and Life Stages or Size
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World Register of Marine Species

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Belgian marine datasets
Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

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date created
2017-08-28
date modified
2025-01-14