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Porifera collection of the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA) - Data
Citation
Ghiglione C, Alvaro M C, Cecchetto M, Canese S, Downey R, Guzzi A, Mazzoli C, Piazza P, Rapp H T, Sarà A, Schiaparelli S (2017): Porifera collection of the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA) - Data. v1.4. Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA, Section of Genoa). Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource?r=mna_antarctic_porifera&v=1.4 https://doi.org/10.15468/robcnf
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Ghiglione, Claudio Availability:
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This new dataset presents occurrence data for Porifera collected in the Ross Sea, mainly in the Terra Nova Bay area, and curated at the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA, section of Genoa). more
Specimens were collected in 331 different sampling stations at depths ranging from 17 to 1100 meters in the framework of 17 different Italian Antarctic expeditions funded by the Italian National Antarctic Research Program (PNRA). A total of 807 specimens, belonging to 144 morphospecies (i.e. 95 taxa identified at species level and 49 classified at least at the genus level), are included in the dataset. Nearly half (45%) of the species reported here correspond to species already known for Terra Nova Bay. Out of the remaining 55% previously unknown records, under a third (~29%) was classified at the specific level, while over a quarter (~26%) was ascribed to the genus level only and requires further study. All vouchers are permanently curated at the MNA and are available for study to the scientific community. A 3D model of an uncommon species from the Ross Sea, i.e. Tethyopsis brondstedi (Burton, 1929), is also presented here and will be made available for outreach purposes. Scope Themes: Biology > Invertebrates Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Museum specimens, PS, Ross Sea, PSE, Antarctica, Victoria Land, Terra Nova Bay, Porifera Geographical coverage PS, Ross Sea [Marine Regions] PSE, Antarctica, Victoria Land, Terra Nova Bay [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
6 January 1988 - 1 February 2014 Taxonomic coverage
Porifera [WoRMS]
Parameter
Occurrence of biota Contributors
National Antarctic Museum (MNA), more, data creator
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Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Metadatarecord created: 2018-12-04
Information last updated: 2019-04-10
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