Stalked crinoids (Echinodermata) collected by the R/V Polarstern and Meteor in the south Atlantic and in Antarctica

• Main Authors: Marc Eléaume, Jens-michael Bohn, Michel Roux, Nadia Améziane
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Key words; Antarctica; south Atlantic; biogeography; deep-sea; stalked Crinoidea; Echinodermata; new species; Bathycrinus; Feracrinus; Hyocrinus; Porphyrocrinus; Antarctic; Charcot; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; antarcticus; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.360.1072; http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2012/f/zt03425p022.pdf

During the last decades, R/V Meteor and R/V Polarstern deep-sea investigations in the south Atlantic and neighbouring Southern Ocean collected new samples of stalked crinoids belonging to the families Bathycrinidae, Phrynocrinidae and Hyocrinidae which are herein described. The species found are Bat...