Description
The biodiversity research expedition TAN0204 with RS Tangaroa to the Ross Sea in 2004 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.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 104 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Neilsen, Lavery & Lorz (2009) Synopsis of a new collection of sea spiders from the Ross Sea Antarctica , In press Polar Biology
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GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 7b6322ee-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a. SCAR - AntOBIS publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
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| Online dataset | http://www.iobis.org/mapper/?dataset=1609 US-ASCII Plain Text |
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| Metadata | http://www.vliz.be/imis/imis.php?module=dataset&dasid=1967 UTF-8 XML |
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Geographic Coverage
PS, Ross Sea
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-75, 160], North East [-60, 175] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1302
| Class | Pycnogonida [Sea spiders] |
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Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Alternative Identifiers | 7b6322ee-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a |
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