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Ross Sea Pycnogonids
Citation
Neilsen, Lavery & Lorz (2009) Synopsis of a new collection of sea spiders from the Ross Sea Antarctica , In press Polar Biology https://doi.org/10.15468/np2zor
Contact: Grant, Rachel

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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
Pycnogonid collection from the biodiversity research expedition TAN0204 with RS Tangaroa to the Ross Sea in 2004. more

This survey yielded a new collection of 2,687 specimens of pycnogonids. As much as 25 dfferent species encompassing 14 genera and eight families were identified and their records are discussed herein. The collection is archived in the Marine Invertebrate Collection of the New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). The majority (69%) of specimens are from the Nymphon australe group (Nymphonidae), although species richness and abundance varied among the stations sampled. The collection includes several specimens from polymerous taxa; Pentanymphon antarcticum (Nymphonidae), Decolopoda australis (Colossendeidae) and Pentapycnon bouvieri (Pycnogonidae). All species were classified based on morphological characters, and DNA sequences (from the 18S, 12S, 16S and COI regions) for 21 of the representative morphotypes are given. The DNA sequences confirmed the species-level distinctiveness of these morphotypes.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Invertebrates
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Data, Marine Genomics, PS, Ross Sea, Pycnogonida

Geographical coverage
PS, Ross Sea [Marine Regions]

Taxonomic coverage
Pycnogonida [WoRMS]

Parameters
Genetic DNA sequence
Occurrence of biota

Contributor
Natural Environment Research Council; British Antarctic Survey (BAS), more

Related datasets
Published in:
AntOBIS: Antarctic Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
(Partly) included in:
RAS: Register of Antarctic Species, more

Publication
Based on this dataset
Nielsen, J.F.; Lavery, S.; Lörz, A.-N. (2009). Synopsis of a new collection of sea spiders (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) from the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Polar Biol. 32(8): 1147-1155. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00300-009-0611-8, more

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Literature research
Metadatarecord created: 2009-06-09
Information last updated: 2019-04-10
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