Mollusca collected by Agassiz trawl from the 2016 SO-AntEco Expedition to the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica - data ...

• Main Authors: Steger, Jan, Linse, Katrin, Gan, Yi-Ming, Griffiths, Huw
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: British Antarctic Survey 2024
• Subjects: Occurrence; Specimen; GASTROPODS; BENTHIC; BIVALVES; SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS; Solenograstres; Bivalvia; Polyplacophora; Scaphopoda; Gastropoda; Antarctic; Austral; South Orkney Islands; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; British Antarctic Survey
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15468/hza883; https://www.gbif.org/dataset/60f0304b-2b55-41c5-b23d-b3df565a2389

Mollusca collected by Agassiz trawl from the 2016 SO-AntEco Expedition (JR15005) to the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica - data is an occurrence type dataset published by British Antarctic Survey. Information regarding the Mollusca in this dataset is derived from Agassiz trawl (AGT) samples collected on shelf plateau and slope off the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica, within and outside of the South Orkney Islands Southern Shelf marine protected area. Sampling was conducted in the framework of the British Antarctic Survey/SCAR “South Orkneys - State of the Antarctic Ecosystem” (SO-AntEco) project aboard RRS James Clark Ross during expedition JR15005 in Austral summer 2016. Of 78 successful AGT deployments, 44 trawls at depths ranging from 235-2194 m contained living Mollusca, totaling 2276 individuals, 67 morphospecies and 163 distributional records. Of these, 1999 individuals were Bivalvia (accounting for 15 species), 158 Gastropoda (45 species), 113 Scaphopoda (2 species), 4 Polyplacophora (3 species) and ...