New distributional records of Southern Ocean Isopoda based on vouchers from the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA, Section of Genoa).

• Published in: Biodiversity Data Journal
• Main Authors: Noli, Nicholas, Cecchetto, Matteo, Guzzi, Alice, Grillo, Marco, Cometti, Valentina, Schiaparelli, Stefano
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PubMed Central 2024
• Subjects: Ross Sea; Southern Ocean; Terra Nova Bay; biogeography; museum collection; Antarc*; Antarctic; South Orkney Islands; South Sandwich Islands
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.e127689; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39070715; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11272995/

The order Isopoda Latreille, 1816 consists of species occurring in terrestrial, marine and freshwater environments. In the Southern Ocean (SO), this group is amongst the most speciose and occur at all depths. Isopoda biogeography, despite being studied since the first Antarctic expeditions, is still poorly known from a geographical point of view and shows large occurrence gaps for some groups in specific sectors of the SO. In this paper, we update the isopod checklists of the Ross Sea (RS) and of some peri-Antarctic areas, such as the South Orkney Islands (SOI) and the South Sandwich Islands (SSI), based on the study of museum vouchers curated by the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA, Section of Genoa).