Conquered from the deep sea? A new deep-sea isopod species from the Antarctic shelf shows pattern of recent colonization.

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Torben Riehl, Stefanie Kaiser
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Amundsen Sea; Island Bay; Pine Island Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049354; https://doaj.org/article/5dee1b9232134958bcbcc4fe8e7b40c6

The Amundsen Sea, Antarctica, is amongst the most rapidly changing environments of the world. Its benthic inhabitants are barely known and the BIOPEARL 2 project was one of the first to biologically explore this region. Collected during this expedition, Macrostylis roaldi sp. nov. is described as th...