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RAS: Register of Antarctic Species Citation RAS (Eds.) (2024). Register of Antarctic Species. Accessed at https://ras.biodiversity.aq on yyyy-mm-dd. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/5816 Contact: Van de Putte, Anton Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description A checklist of Antarctic species, compiled by taxonomic experts and based on peer-reviewed literature. more 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. Scope Themes: Biology, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Fresh water, Brackish water, Terrestrial, Classification, Species, Taxonomy, PS, Antarctica Geographical coverage PS, Antarctica [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage From 1758 on [In Progress] Parameters Taxonomy Contributors Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, database developer Biersma, Elise, taxonomic editor Brandão, Simone, taxonomic editor Convey, Peter, taxonomic editor De Broyer, Claude, taxonomic editor Downey, Rachel, taxonomic editor Flores, Hauke, taxonomic editor Hogg, Ian, taxonomic editor Jersabek, Christian, taxonomic editor McInnes, Sandra J., taxonomic editor Merican, Faradina, taxonomic editor Siegel, Volker, taxonomic editor Waller, Cath, taxonomic editor Van de Putte, Anton, taxonomic editor, data manager Related datasets Published in: WoRMS: World Register of Marine Species, more Source datasets: A collection of Antarctic Nemertea, more A collection of Antarctic Phipoda, more Aeolian microbial dispersal limitation to Antarctica (2017), more Airborne Bacteria from Miers Valley, Antarctica, more algal_mat_microbiome_east_antarctica, more Amphipoda Hyperiidea of the Southern Ocean: catalogue and occurrences, more Amundsen Sea Mollusca from the BIOPEARL II expedition, more Annelid Fauna of the Prince Gustav Channel, a previously ice-covered seaway on the northeastern Antarctic Peninsula - Data, more Antarctic Amphipod Crustaceans: Ant'Phipoda Database (BIANZO), more Antarctic Amphipoda, more Antarctic and Subantarctic Asteroid zoogeography, more Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Asteroidea database 2017, more Antarctic and sub-Antarctic Lophogastrida occurrences, more Antarctic and SubAntarctic Ophiuroidea - MNA (Section of Genoa), more Antarctic Arrow worms, more Antarctic cryosphere fungal diversity (2015), more Antarctic cryptoendolithic fungal communities ITS amplicon sequencing, more Antarctic Echinoids: an interactive database, more Antarctic Euphausiacea occurence data from "German Antarctic Marine Living Resources" (GAMLR) Expeditions, more Antarctic Euphausiacea occurence data from Norwegian Antarctic Research Expedition 1976-77, more Antarctic Euphausiacea occurence data from Polish FIBEX expeditions, more Antarctic Euphausiacea occurrence data from ITALICA 2000 Expedition, more Antarctic Euphausiacea occurrence data from Norwegian Antarctic Research Expedition 1979, more Antarctic fish Gobionotothen gibberifrons, more Antarctic Foraminiferans, more Antarctic Isopods, more Antarctic Jellyfish, more Antarctic Krill Euphausia superba, more Antarctic Krill occurrence data from Australian expeditions, more Antarctic Krill occurrence data from BAS expeditions, more Antarctic Krill occurrence data from Discovery expeditions, more Antarctic Krill occurrence data from Japanese expeditions, more Antarctic Krill occurrence data from Spanish RV "Fruela", more Antarctic Krill occurrence data from Ukraine YUGNIRO Institute, more Antarctic Krill occurrence data from US AMLR "US Antarctic Marine Living Resources" Program, more Antarctic macrobenthic communities: A compilation of circumpolar information, more Antarctic Marine Amoebae, more Antarctic Marine Bacteria from Denmark University, more Antarctic Marine Species Sequence Data, more Antarctic Nemertea, more Antarctic pack ice Bacterial (16S) communities, more Antarctic Parborlasia corrugatus, more Antarctic Penguin Biogeography Project: Database of abundance and distribution for the Adélie, chinstrap, gentoo, emperor, macaroni, and king penguin south of 60 S, more Antarctic Peninsula Bacterioplankton 16S rRNA gene surveys and metagenomes from Winter 2002 and Summer 2006., more Antarctic polar desert surface soil microbiome, more Antarctic Pycnogonids II, more Antarctic Rotifera literature review, more Antarctic snow algae communities, more Antarctic Starfish (Echinodermata: asteroidea) from the ANDEEP3 expedition, more Antarctic Surface Snow Bacterial Communities, more Antarctic, Sub-Antarctic and cold temperate echinoid database, more ANTAVIA TrackingKing, more Ant'Phipoda Database (New records), more ANTXXIII8TP: ANTXXIII-8 Birds and Mammals, more Archaea from the ANDEEP3 expedition, more Arctic multi-year sea ice Bacteria, more Arctic Ocean microbial metagenomes sampled aboard CGC Healy during the 2015 GEOTRACES Arctic research cruise, more Argentina–Chile National Geographic Pristine Seas Expedition To The Antarctic Peninsula - Deep Sea Cam Data, more Associated microbiome (Bacteria and Fungi) in Antarctic sea stars (healthy versus exhibiting epidermal disease), more Asteroids, ophiuroids and holothurians from the South-Eastern Weddell Sea (Southern Ocean), more Bacteria (16S ssu rRNA) in an Antarctic snow sample, more Bacteria (16S) and Eukaryotes (18S) from the Sor Rondane Mountains (East Antarctica), more Bacteria (16S) in Antarctic terrestrial soils of the Sor Rondane Mountains, more Bacteria (16S) in growth laminae of a large conical mats from Lake Untersee, East Antarctic, more Bacteria and Archaea biodiversity in Arctic and Subarctic terrestrial ecosystems in Alaska, more Bacteria and Archaea biodiversity in Arctic terrestrial ecosystems affected by climate change in Northern Siberia, more Bacteria and Archaea biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems of Chilean Patagonia, more Bacteria and Archaea in different soil types on King George Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica), more Bacteria and chlorophyll-a water column observations (surface to ~150m), April-August 2001, Continental Margin Western Antarctic Peninsula, GLOBEC, more Bacteria from Penguin Guano, Antarctica, more Bacteria in Antarctic glacial foreland soils, more Bacteria on mummified seals in the Antarctic Dry Valleys, more Bacterial community during Phaeocystis antarctica blooms (Amundsen Sea polynya), more Bacterial Diversity Assessment in Antarctic Terrestrial and Aquatic Microbial Mats, more Bacterial diversity in closed cryoconite holes in Southern Victoria Land (Antarctica), more Bacterial in the Amundsen Sea Polynya (Southern Ocean): community composition in environmental samples and mesocosm experiment, more Bacterioplankon from lakes on Byers Peninsula (2008), more Bacterioplankton in surface waters off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, more BCCM/ULC Cyanobacteria culture collection at the University of Liège (ISO9001 certified), more benthic communities bacterial in Antarctica and the arctic, more Benthic microbial communities (Bacteria, 16S) of coastal terrestrial and ice shelf Antarctic meltwater ponds, more Biogeographic distribution of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic Cumacea, more Biogeographic distribution of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic Mysida, more Biogeographic distribution of the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic brachiopods (living forms), more Biopearl expedition: SeaStars (Echinodermata, Asteroidea), more Bryozoa collection of the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA) - Data, more Carotenoid producing bacteria from Antarctica, more CCAMLR historic KRILL, more CEAMARC Eastern Antarctic Gelatinous Mesozooplankton (Cnidaria and Ctenophora), more Circumpolar dataset of sequenced specimens of Promachocrinus kerguelensis (Echinodermata, Crinoidea), more Collections data on ecology of bottom animal of the Southern ocean, more Community diversity in microbial eukaryotes from lakes in the the Vestfold Hills, Antarctica, more Cyanobacteria in microbial mats from Antarctic lakes, more cyanobacterial mats of from the Byers Peninsula, Antarctica, more Distribution records of Amphipoda based on the collection stored at the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA), more Distributional records of Ross Sea (Antarctica) planktonic Copepoda from bibliographic data and samples curated at the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA), more Distributional records of sea cucumbers (Echinodermata, Holothuroidea) based on the collection stored at the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA, section of Genoa), more DNA metabarcoding of the prey and microbiome of museum specimen Antarctic trematomid fishes, more East Weddell Sea echinoids from the JR275 expedition, more Echinoids_Kerguelen_Plateau_1872_2015, more Echinoids_occurrences_Southern_Ocean, more Epipelagic mesozooplankton distribution and abundance in Southern Ocean Atlantic sector and the North Atlantic and Arctic 1996-2013, more EPOS3: SeaStars (Echinodermata, Asteroidea), more Evidence of a Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem documented via tourist submarine off Cape Well-Met, Vega Island, Eastern Antarctic Peninsula (Subarea 48.1) - data, more fumarolic microbial communities at Tramway Ridge, Mt. Erebus, Antarctica, more Fungal communities (ITS) in Antarctic brines., more Fungi (LSU) in soils from the South Shetland island, Antarctic Peninsula island, and Union Glacier, more Geomicrobiology of Antarctic Subglacial Environments - Subglacial Lake Whillans, more Geothermal Fumarole Subsurface Mt. Erebus, Antarctica, more Global biogeography of desert cyanobacteria, more Gut content of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba from the West Antarctic Peninsula, more Heterotrophic bacterial diversity in aquatic microbial mat communities from Antarctica, more High gene flow in polar cod (Boreogadus saida) from West-Svalbard and the Eurasian Basin - Occurrence Data, more Hypolithic and soil bacteria in Miers_Valley, Antarctica, more Icota - Pelagant, more Improving Species-Based Area Protection in Antarctica - data, more In situ observations of Stygiomedusa gigantea, more Inter-Valley Soil Comparative Survey of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, more Invertebrates from the ANTARXXVII Leg1 expedition to the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica - data, more Isopoda of the Southern Ocean: New Records from the Ross Sea Area by the National Antarctic Museum (MNA) Genoa Section, more ITS samples from the air and snow of Livingston Island, more Krill abundance, vertical and horizontal distribution (MOCNESS system), April-June 2001-02, continental margin west of Antarctic Peninsula, GLOBEC, more KRILLBASE_antarctickrillssalpsdensity_1926_2016, more Lissarca notorcadensis BAS CAML, more Macrozooplankton concentrations estimated from MOCNESS tow samples, Continental Margin Western Antarctic Peninsula, GLOBEC, more Marine bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbial communities on the continental shelf of the western Antarctic Peninsula, more Marine bacterioplankton community structure in the vicinity of Antarctic icebergs, more Marine birds and mammals of the Southern Ocean (a census for the CAML), more Marine mammals on the INACH expeditions, more Marine_ microbial eukaryotes (18S) from the Ross Sea (Antarctica), more Maritime and Sub-Antarctic microbial soil fungi communities, more Metagenome assembly of an Amundsen Sea (Antarctica, Southern Ocean) water sample, more Metatranscriptome from microbial mats in Arctic and Antarctic polar tundra environments, more Microbes (16S and 18S rRNA genes) from benthic Antarctic sediments, more Microbes (Eukaryotes and Archaea) in sea water from Fildes Peninsula (King George Island, Antarctica), more Microbial (16S) diversity in sediments of the former subglacial Hodgson lake (Antarctica), more Microbial (Bacteria, 16S) Diversity in Antarctic marine sediments (Admiralty Bay and Bransfield Strait), more Microbial communities (Bacteria and Archaea) in Lake Fryxell (Antarctica) along an oxygen gradient, more Microbial communities (Bacteria, Eukaryotes and Fungi) in Arctic, Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic lacustrine biofilms, more Microbial communities (Eukaryotes and Bacteria) of transiently wetted vs. arid Antarctic Dry Valley soils, more Microbial communities in colored snow from Fildes Peninsula (King George Island, Maritime Antarctica, 2017), more Microbial diversity (Bacteria and Archaea 16S rRNA gene) in geothermal sites of Deception Island volcano, Antarctica, more microbial Eukaryotes in lakes along an Argentinian-Antarctic geographical gradient, more Microbial fungal communities (18S) of Antarctic Dry Valley lakes, more Microbial Fungi in soils on different Sub-Antarctic islands, more Microbial metabarcoding surveys (Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryota) of the arctic marine environment, more Microbial population dynamics along a terrestrial Antarctic moisture gradient, more Microbial soil Fungi (ITS2) diversity from Maritime Antarctica, more Microbiome (Archaea, Bacteria and Eukaryota) of lake Fryxell and lake Bonney (McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica), more Microbiome (Archaea, Bacteria and Fungi) in soils from King George Island (Antarctica), more Microbiome (Bacteria, Archaea and fungi) from University Valley Permafrost cores (Antarctica), more Microbiome diversity in the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica, more Microorganisms (Bacteria 16S; Eukaryota 18S) from soil crusts in polar (Arctic and Antarctic) ecosystems, more Microorganisms (Bacteria and Archaea) in the marine cavity beneath the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica, more Microorganisms (Bacteria, Archaea and phototroph eukaryotes) from Fildes Bay, King George Island, Antarctica, more Microorganisms (eukaryote and bacteria) in Antarctic cryoconite holes., more Microorganisms in frost flowers on young Arctic sea ice, comparison between different ice types, more Microorganisms in Paleomats at the shores of lake Vanda, Antarctica, more Mitochondrial lineages in the Antarctic sea slug Doris kerguelenensis, more MNA (Section of Genoa) and NIWA Invertebrate Collection - Ross Sea Tanaidacea, more MNA (Section of Genoa) associated collection of CCFEE (Tuscia University) - Antarctic Fungi, more MNA CIBAN Italian Antarctic Bacterial Culture Collection, more Mollusca collected by Agassiz trawl from the 2016 SO-AntEco Expedition to the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica - data, more Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN), Buenos Aires: sea stars collection (Asteroidea, Echinodermata), more Myctobase, a circumpolar database of mesopelagic fishes for new insights into deep pelagic prey fields - data, more Near‐shore microbial communities (Eukaryotes, Bacteria and Archaea) of the sub‐Antarctic Prince Edward Islands, more Nemertina World Checklist, more New Zealand Terrestrial Biocomplexity Survey, more Palmer LTER 2014 cruise microbial Eukaryote (18s) plankton, more Pelagic microbes (Eukaryote 18S and Material 16S amplicons) from sites in the Southern, Indian and Arctic Oceans, more Penguins of Antarctica, more Photodocumentation_of_Antarctic_Peninsula_Lichens, more Planktonic, benthic and sympagic copepods collected in the desalination unit during the XXXIVth Expedition of the Italian National Antarctic Program (PNRA), more PolE At Sea Observations of Birds and Marine Mammals during PS 81 (ANT-XXIX/4), more Porifera collection of the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA) - Data, more Promachocrinus kerguelensis, more Protist diversity in a permanently ice-covered Antarctic Lake during the polar night transition, more RNA-Virome (RNA shotgun sequencing) from lake Limnopolar on Livingston Island (Antarctica), more Ross Sea mollusca from Italica 2004, more Ross Sea Pycnogonids, more SCAR Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean - Antarctic free-living marine Nematodes - Data, more SCAR Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean - Benthic Hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) - data, more SCAR Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean - Benthic Ostracoda - Data, more SCAR Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean - foraminifera- Data, more SCAR Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean - Lophogastrida and Mysida (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida) of the Southern Ocean - Data, more SCAR Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean - macroalgae - Data, more SCAR Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean - Porifera - Data, more SCAR Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean - Tanaidacea - Data, more SCAR Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean - Tintinnid Ciliates of the Southern Ocean - Data, more SCAR Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean -Harpacticoida (Crustacea: Copepoda), more Sea cucumbers (Echinodemata, Holothuroidea) from the JR275 expedition to the Eastern Weddell Sea, Antarctica - Data, more Sea spiders (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) from ten recent research expeditions to the Antarctic Peninsula, Scotia Arc and Weddell Sea - data, more Sequenced genes (ureC gene) and a metagenome from Archaea in Arctic and Antarctic marine environments, more Soil microbiome (Bacteria) on Keller Peninsula (Antarctica), more SOMBASE - Southern Ocean mollusc database: a tool for biogeographic analysis in diversity and evolution, more SO-Polylist, more Southern Ocean Cnidarian Collections, more Southern Ocean Experimental Metatranscriptome to Investigate Micronutrient Colimitation, more Southern Ocean microbial dataset, more Southern Ocean octopus, more Southern Ocean oligochaete occurrence data - a literature-based compilation, more Southern Ocean Ostracoda (except Halocypridina), more 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), more 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, more Stable isotope ratios of C, N and S in Southern Ocean sea stars (1985-2017), more Staying cool also has consequences: increased sea ice cover disrupts food web structure in East Antarctica-Data, more Surface and deep marine bacterial communities in the Arctic and Antarctic, more Synoicum_adareanum_microbiome, more Tagged Seal Location Data from SOGLOBEC, more The Belgica 121 expedition to the Western Antarctic Peninsula: a high resolution biodiversity census, more The First Comprehensive Description of the Biodiversity and Biogeography of Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Intertidal Communities, more The Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking (Standardised) Data from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, more The skin microbiome (based on 16S) of Antarctic Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae), more V3-V4 16S rDNA of soil bacteria in King George Island and Deception Island, more virome_antarctic_lakes_2010, more Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem Indicator Taxa recorded by submarine as evidence of the presence of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems, Antarctic Peninsula - data, more Walter Herwig 1978 (FFS): SeaStars (Echinodermata, Asteroidea), more Weddell Sea macrozoobenthos EASIZ I, more Western Antarctic Peninsula Bacteria (Mesocosm exp.), more Winter Picoplankton Diversity and Distribution in the US Antarctic Marine Living Resources Study Area - Northern Antarctic Peninsula, more Zooplankton abundance and population structures assessed during April-September of 2001-2, Southern Ocean, GLOBEC, more Zooplankton Abundance Based on Taxa and Life Stages or Size, more Dataset status: In Progress Data type: Data Data origin: Data collection Metadatarecord created: 2017-08-28 Information last updated: 2024-01-17 | ||||
