Antarctic Porifera database from the Spanish benthic expeditions: Bentart, Gebrap and Ciemar

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 766 records.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Rios, P. & Cristobo, F.J. (2013) . Antarctic Porifera database from the Spanish benthic expeditions: Bentart, Gebrap and Ciemar Database accesed on (date).

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GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 2f58500b-b776-4fe6-b2b9-cbb32e8cd615.  Instituto Español de Oceanografía. Centro Oceanográfico de Gijón (CSIC) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Spain.

Keywords

Porifera; Antarctic; Deep-Sea; Biodiversity; BENTART; Antarctic Peninsula; Bellingshausen Sea; Sponges; Benthic fauna; Occurrence; Occurrence

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

Antarctic

Taxonomic Coverage

This dataset focuses on Antarctic Porifera. It includes data on 10 orders. The highest level of identification is Order Poecilosclerida with 51 species (441 samples). We are identified 5 species of Lysaccinosida (43 samples), 1 species of Leucosolenida (2 samples), 1 species of Chondrosida (1 sample), 3 species of Spirophorida (28 samples), 6 species of Hadromerida (80 samples), 3 genus of Halichondrida (15 samples), 5 species of Haplosclerida (125 samples), 1 species of Petrosina (1 sample), 1 species of Dendroceratida (14 samples) and 51 records identified at class level.

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

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The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

- The material examined was collected on board R/V Hesperides, using different methods: rock dredge, Van Veen dredge, anchor dredge, suprabenthic sledge, fish traps, scuba diving, Box corer and Agassiz trawl. - Once on the deck, the content of the samplers was immediately sorted by taxa, washed in cold sea water and classified by specialist of each group. Afterwards, sponge samples were transferred to 80 % ethanol. - The taxonomic identification was performed in the laboratory. The organic matter was digested with nitric acid taken to boiling point, following the methods of Rützler (1978) and Cristobo et al. (1993) and spicules of some samples were examined using a Leica S440 Scanning Electron Microscope.

Method step description:

1. see sampling description above

Collection Data

Bibliographic Citations

1. Ríos P, Cristobo FJ & Urgorri V (2004). Poecilosclerida (Porifera, Demospongiae) collected by the Spanish Antarctic expedition BENTART-94. Cah Biol Mar 45: 97-11
2. Ríos P & Cristobo FJ (2006). A new species of Biemna (Porifera: Poecilosclerida) from Antarctica: Biemna strongylota. J Mar Biol Assoc UK 86: 949-955
3. Ríos P & Cristobo FJ (2007). A new species of Phorbas (Porifera: Poecilosclerida) from the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 87: 1485–1490... doi: 10.1017/S0025315407058079
4. Ríos P & Cristobo FJ (2007). Sponges of genus Myxilla Schmidt, 1862, collected in Antarctic waters by Spanish Antarctic expeditions. Porifera Research: Biodiversity, Innovation and Sustainability 525-546
5. Ríos, P. (2007). Esponjas del Orden Poecilosclerida de las campañas españolas de bentos antártico. Tesis Doctoral. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. 527pp
6. Ríos, P. & Cristobo, F.J. (2011). La Exploración Antártica. En: La Antártida, la vida en el límite, las exploraciones Bentart. Ed.: Hercules de Ediciones. ISBN. 978-84-92715-29-9: 50-75.
7. Ríos, P. & Cristobo, F.J. (2011). Poriferos. En: La Antártida, la vida en el límite, las exploraciones Bentart. Ed.: Hercules de Ediciones. ISBN. 978-84-92715-29-9: 256.
8. Beliaev, G.M. & Ushakov, P.V. (1957). Certain regularities in the quantitative distribution of the bottom fauna in Antarctic waters. American Institute of Biological Sciences, 112: 116-119.
9. Cristobo FJ, Urgorri V, Solórzano MR, Ríos P (1993) Métodos de recogida, estudio y conservación de las colecciones de poríferos. In: Palacios F, Martínez C, Thomas B (eds). International Symposium and First World Congress on Preservation and Conservation of Natural History Collections, Madrid 2. Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Archivos. Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid. pp. 277-287
10. Rützler K (1978) Sponges on coral reefs. In: Stoddart DR, Johanness RE (eds). Coral reefs: research methods. Unesco, Paris. pp. 81-120
11. Sarà M., Balduzzi A., Barbieri M., Bavestrello G. & Burlando B. (1992). Biogeographic traits and checklist of Antarctic demosponges, Polar Biology, 12: 559-585.
12. Van Soest, R.W.M. & Hajdu, E. (2002) Systema Porifera: A Guide to the Classification of Sponges, (Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, RW.M. eds.), 1810 pp New York.

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