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Isopoda of the Southern Ocean: New Records from the Ross Sea Area by the National Antarctic Museum (MNA) Genoa Section
Citation
Noli N, Cecchetto M, Guzzi A, Grillo M, Cometti V, Schiaparelli S, Gan Y (2023). Isopoda of the Southern Ocean: New Records from the Ross Sea Area by the National Antarctic Museum (MNA) Genoa Section. Version 1.2. Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA, Section of Genoa). Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource?r=mna_isopoda&v=1.2 https://doi.org/10.15468/w62z98
Contact: Noli, Nicholas
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
Isopoda Latreille, 1816 is an order that consists of a vast number of taxa, living and thriving in land, sea, fresh- and groundwater. Isopods in the Southern Ocean are highly speciose and well-represented from the shelf to deep-sea zones. Southern Ocean isopod marine species and their biogeography, yet studied since the firsts Antarctic expeditions, are however poorly known. Regarding Ross Sea, isopod communities and assemblages are still less studied than the Weddell Sea ones. New biogeographical data regarding Ross Sea isopods are presented here, examining the National Antarctic Museum (MNA) Genoa section samples belonging to 15 Antarctic Expeditions. more

A total of 279 MNA samples were identified, resulting in 53 accepted species distributed in 24 families and 48 genera. From this identification, 15 species are considered new records for the Ross Sea area. GBIF and OBIS (Ocean Biodiversity Information System) (https://obis.org) databases, and bibliographic research were used as validation to the eventually new records for the Ross Sea area.


This dataset is published by Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA) under the license CC BY 4.0. Please follow the guidelines from the SCAR Data Policy (SCAR, 2022) when using the data. If you have any questions regarding this dataset, please contact us via the contact information provided in the metadata or via data-biodiversity-aq@naturalsciences.be. Issues with dataset can be reported at https://github.com/biodiversity-aq/data-publication/ The publication of this data paper was funded by the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO, contract n°FR/36/AN1/AntaBIS) in the Framework of EU-Lifewatch as a contribution to the SCAR Antarctic biodiversity portal (biodiversity.aq).

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Invertebrates
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, PS, Ross Sea, PS, Southern Ocean, Isopoda
Geographical coverage
PS, Ross Sea [Marine Regions]
PS, Southern Ocean [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
23 January 1995 - 5 December 2018
Taxonomic coverage
Isopoda [WoRMS]
Parameter
Occurrence of biota
Contributors
University of Siena; Department of Physical sciences, Earth and environment (DSFTA), more, data creator
Noli, Nicholas
Grillo, Marco
University of Genova; Department for Earth, Environment and Life Sciences (DISTAV), more, data creator
Cecchetto, Matteo
Guzzi, Alice
Cometti, Valentina
Schiaparelli, Stefano
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen (IRScNB/KBIN), more, data creator
Gan, Yi Ming
Related datasets
Published in:
AntOBIS: Antarctic Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
(Partly) included in:
RAS: Register of Antarctic Species, more
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Metadatarecord created: 2023-10-16
Information last updated: 2023-10-16
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