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: Riehl, Torben, Kaiser, Stefanie
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2012
• Subjects: Research Article; Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Island Bay; Pine Island Bay; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Pine Island
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3492298; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23145160; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049354

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...