Bathypelagic Fish Diversity in the Sargasso Sea, Northwestern Atlantic Ocean
Of the various marine habitats, one of the (if not the) most daunting to quantify is the under-sampled bathypelagic zone (> 1000 m depth), which at 60% of the ocean’s volume is the largest habitat on Earth. One project addressing this challenge is the Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ), whose g...
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ftnsoutheastern:oai:nsuworks.nova.edu:occ_facpresentations-1209 2023-05-15T17:33:23+02:00 Bathypelagic Fish Diversity in the Sargasso Sea, Northwestern Atlantic Ocean Sutton, Tracey Wiebe, Peter Bucklin, Ann Madin, Laurence P. 2008-03-01T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facpresentations/248 https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1209&context=occ_facpresentations unknown NSUWorks https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facpresentations/248 https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1209&context=occ_facpresentations Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches, Lectures Marine Biology Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology poster 2008 ftnsoutheastern 2022-04-10T21:30:35Z Of the various marine habitats, one of the (if not the) most daunting to quantify is the under-sampled bathypelagic zone (> 1000 m depth), which at 60% of the ocean’s volume is the largest habitat on Earth. One project addressing this challenge is the Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ), whose goal is the assessment of biodiversity of animal plankton throughout the world’s oceans. The 2006 CMarZ cruise in the Western North Atlantic provided an unprecedented opportunity to sample bathypelagic micronekton using a large midwater trawl (10-m2 MOCNESS) outfitted with fine (0.335-mm) mesh netting. This netting allowed non-destructive sampling of the fragile fish fauna to 5000 m depth, thus facilitating accurate identification and at-sea DNA extraction and sequencing. A total of 3,965 fish specimens were collected from at least 127 species (84 genera, 42 families), many rarely caught, and four of which may be undescribed. Of note were male anglerfishes from five families, which are poorly known. Tissue was taken from all males to match with females, thus enabling the construction of a key for the most diverse bathypelagic fish group. Still Image North Atlantic Nova Southeastern University: NSU Works |
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Of the various marine habitats, one of the (if not the) most daunting to quantify is the under-sampled bathypelagic zone (> 1000 m depth), which at 60% of the ocean’s volume is the largest habitat on Earth. One project addressing this challenge is the Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ), whose goal is the assessment of biodiversity of animal plankton throughout the world’s oceans. The 2006 CMarZ cruise in the Western North Atlantic provided an unprecedented opportunity to sample bathypelagic micronekton using a large midwater trawl (10-m2 MOCNESS) outfitted with fine (0.335-mm) mesh netting. This netting allowed non-destructive sampling of the fragile fish fauna to 5000 m depth, thus facilitating accurate identification and at-sea DNA extraction and sequencing. A total of 3,965 fish specimens were collected from at least 127 species (84 genera, 42 families), many rarely caught, and four of which may be undescribed. Of note were male anglerfishes from five families, which are poorly known. Tissue was taken from all males to match with females, thus enabling the construction of a key for the most diverse bathypelagic fish group. |
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Bathypelagic Fish Diversity in the Sargasso Sea, Northwestern Atlantic Ocean |
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Bathypelagic Fish Diversity in the Sargasso Sea, Northwestern Atlantic Ocean |
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Bathypelagic Fish Diversity in the Sargasso Sea, Northwestern Atlantic Ocean |
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