Antarctic Rotifera literature review

Giuseppe Garlaschè1, Diego Fontaneto2, Stefano Schiaparelli3, Stefano Schiaparelli4

1 National Research Council of Italy, Water Research Institute (CNR-IRSA), ; 2 National Research Council of Italy, Water Research Institute (CNR-IRSA), , Italy; 3 Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA), Section of Genoa, ; 4 Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA), Section of Genoa, , Italy

Corresponding author(s): Giuseppe GarlaschèDiego Fontaneto (diego.fontaneto@cnr.it), Stefano Schiaparelli (stefano.schiaparelli@unige.it)

Received {date}; Revised {date}; Accepted {date}; Published {date}

Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Abstract

We present a data set on Antarctic biodiversity for the phylum Rotifera, providing taxonomic information, geographic distribution, location, and habitat. The data set gathers all the published literature about rotifers found and identified across the Continental, Maritime, and Subantarctic biogeographic regions of Antarctica. A total of 1422 records of rotifers in Antarctica found from 1907 to 2018 is reported, with information on taxonomic hierarchies, updated nomenclature, geographic information, geographic coordinates, and type of habitat. The aim is to provide a georeferenced data set on Antarctic rotifers as a baseline for further studies, to improve our knowledge on what has been considered one of the most diverse and successful groups of animals living in Antarctica.

Keywords: Occurrence, Antarctica, Bdelloidea, biodiversity, biogeography, Monogononta, rotifers

Project details

Project title: Antarctic Rotifera
Personnel: Giuseppe Garlaschè, Diego Fontaneto, Karimullah Karimullah, Nataliia Iakovenko, Alejandro Velasco-Catrillón, Karel Janko, Roberto Guidetti, Lorena Rebecchi, Stefano Schiaparelli, Matteo Cecchetto, Willem H. de Smet, Diego Fontaneto
Funding: Funding grants: Italian National Antarctic Research Program (PNRA, www.pnra.it), projects 2013/AZ1.13 and PNRA16_00120-A1 (TNB-CODE).
Study area descriptions/descriptor: This data set covers all studies conducted in the three currently accepted biogeographic regions of Antarctica (Stonehouse 1982; Lewis-Smith 1984; Ochyra 1998; Van der Putten et al. 2012): (1) Subantarctica, representing all the islands at latitudes between 45° and 60°S, including the South Atlantic Ocean Province (South Georgia), the South Pacific Ocean Province (Macquarie Island) and the South Indian Ocean Province (Prince Edward Islands, Iles Crozet, Iles Kerguelen and the Heard Island group); (2) Maritime Antarctica, including the other islands and archipelagos in the South Atlantic (namely South Shetlands, South Orkneys, South Sandwich and Bouvetøya) and the Antarctic peninsula (Palmer Land and Graham Land); (3) Continental Antarctica, representing all the rest of the continent, excluding the peninsula, and the surrounding islands. Moreover, for Continental Antarctica, a further subdivision in six sectors (Pugh 1993; McInnes & Pugh 1998; Velasco-Castrillón et al. 2014a, b, c) was followed: (1) Maud (between 30°W and 30°E), (2) Enderby (between 30°E and 90°E), (3) Wilkes (between 90°E and 150°E), (4) Scott (between 150°E and 150°W), (5) Byrd (between 90°W and 150°W), (6) Ronne (between 30°W and 90°W, excluding the Peninsula, which belongs to Maritime Antarctica).

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource?r=rotifera_database

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: The data set covers all records of the phylum Rotifera in Antarctica. The inclusion of a taxon was based on its taxonomic assignation to the phylum Rotifera in its traditional meaning, excluding parasitic Acanthocephala (Fontaneto & De Smet 2015).

All taxa belonging to Rotifera were considered. In particular, we gathered data from records at the species, genus, family, class (Bdelloidea, Monogononta, Seisonacea), and phylum (Rotifera) level (Fontaneto & De Smet 2015).
Taxonomic ranks
Phylum: Rotifera

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: This data set covers all studies conducted in the three currently accepted biogeographic regions of Antarctica (Stonehouse 1982; Lewis-Smith 1984; Ochyra 1998; Van der Putten et al. 2012): (1) Subantarctica, representing all the islands at latitudes between 45° and 60°S, including the South Atlantic Ocean Province (South Georgia), the South Pacific Ocean Province (Macquarie Island) and the South Indian Ocean Province (Prince Edward Islands, Iles Crozet, Iles Kerguelen and the Heard Island group); (2) Maritime Antarctica, including the other islands and archipelagos in the South Atlantic (namely South Shetlands, South Orkneys, South Sandwich and Bouvetøya) and the Antarctic peninsula (Palmer Land and Graham Land); (3) Continental Antarctica, representing all the rest of the continent, excluding the peninsula, and the surrounding islands. Moreover, for Continental Antarctica, a further subdivision in six sectors (Pugh 1993; McInnes & Pugh 1998; Velasco-Castrillón et al. 2014a, b, c) was followed: (1) Maud (between 30°W and 30°E), (2) Enderby (between 30°E and 90°E), (3) Wilkes (between 90°E and 150°E), (4) Scott (between 150°E and 150°W), (5) Byrd (between 90°W and 150°W), (6) Ronne (between 30°W and 90°W, excluding the Peninsula, which belongs to Maritime Antarctica).
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 60°0'0''S Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1907 - 2018

Methods

Method step description: The completeness of the literature survey was confirmed by using three different search engines, and by not finding additional papers until 2014 not already listed in Fontaneto et al. (2015). The published data were considered reliable and simply checked for nomenclatorial consistency.

Taxonomic data were checked and updated to include revision of names, synonymizing, delimitation of genera and higher taxa, all conducted through a comparison with the List of Available Names for Rotifera (Segers et al. 2012, 2015) for all species described before year 2000, and with the original descriptions for all species described after year 2000. Both the original name reported in the paper reporting the record and the currently accepted name are included in the data set.
Study extent description: This data set covers all studies conducted in the three currently accepted biogeographic regions of Antarctica.
Sampling description: The data set was created including all the available publications on Antarctic Rotifera, to the best of our knowledge through the literature search.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Antarctic Rotifera literature review
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.biodiversity.aq/archive.do?r=rotifera_database
Publication date of data: 2019-12-17
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2019-07-12
Hierarchy level: Dataset