Choudhury, Madhumita; Brandt, Angelika (2009): Benthic isopod species in the Ross Sea and their distribution in the Southern Ocean [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.808313, Supplement to: Choudhury, M; Brandt, A (2009): Benthic isopods (Crustacea, Malacostraca) from the Ross Sea, Antarctica: species checklist and their zoogeography in the Southern Ocean. Polar Biology, 32(4), 599-610, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-008-0560-7
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Abstract:
In this study isopod species of the Ross Sea were investigated. Literature until May 2008 was checked to provide an overview of all known and described species in the Ross Sea. This species checklist was then enlarged through material of the 19th Italica expedition in 2004. During this expedition for the first time a small mesh net (500 µm) was used. Nine thousand four hundred and eighty one isopod specimens were collected during this expedition. Through this material the number of isopod species in the Ross Sea increased from 42 to 117 species, which belong to 20 families and 49 genera. Fifty-six percentage of the isopods species collected during the Italica expedition are new to science. The zoogeography of the 117 species was investigated. A non-transformed binary presence-absence data matrix was constructed using the Bray-Curtis coefficient. The results were displayed in a cluster analysis and by nonmetric multidimensional scaling (MDS). This paper gives a first insight into the occurrence and distribution of the isopod species of the Ross Sea.
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Median Latitude: -68.152786 * Median Longitude: -111.292630 * South-bound Latitude: -82.000000 * West-bound Longitude: -179.642200 * North-bound Latitude: -46.700000 * East-bound Longitude: 52.050000
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Data extracted in the frame of a joint ICSTI/PANGAEA IPY effort, see http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.150150
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- Choudhury, M; Brandt, A (2009): (Table 1) Benthic isopod species numbers in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.808311
- Choudhury, M; Brandt, A (2009): (Table 2) Benthic isopod species of the Ross Sea, their bathymetry and distribution in the Southern Ocean. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.808312