Antarctic Porifera database from the Spanish benthic expeditions: Bentart, Gebrap and Ciemar

Occurrence
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Description

This database includes information on porífera collected during several Spanish Antarctic expeditions: Bentart 94; Bentart 95; Gebrap 96; Ciemar 99/00 and Bentart 2003. The expeditions focused from the Antarctic Peninsula to Bellingshausen Sea. Porifera were collected using rock dredge, Van Veen dredge, anchor dredge, suprabenthic sledge, fish traps, scuba diving, Box corer and Agassiz trawl. The dataset now reaches 771 occurrence data that have checked for systematic reliability. This database is not finished and the collection is growing. The data are available in Gbif.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 766 records.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Rios, P. & Cristobo, F.J. (2013) . Antarctic Porifera database from the Spanish benthic expeditions: Bentart, Gebrap and Ciemar Database accesed on (date).

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GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 2f58500b-b776-4fe6-b2b9-cbb32e8cd615.  Instituto Español de Oceanografía. Centro Oceanográfico de Gijón (CSIC) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Spain.

Keywords

Porifera; Antarctic; Deep-Sea; Biodiversity; BENTART; Antarctic Peninsula; Bellingshausen Sea; Sponges; Benthic fauna; Occurrence; Occurrence

Contacts

Pilar Rios
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Researche
Instituto Español de Oceanografia (C.O. Gijon)
Avda Principe de Asturias 70bis
33212 Gijon
Asturias
ES
Javier Cristobo
  • Author
Researche
Instituto Español de Oceanografia (C.O. Gijon)
Avda Principe de Asturias 70bis
33212 Gijon
Asturias
ES

Geographic Coverage

Antarctic

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -57], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

This dataset focuses on Antarctic Porifera. It includes data on 10 orders. The highest level of identification is Order Poecilosclerida with 51 species (441 samples). We are identified 5 species of Lysaccinosida (43 samples), 1 species of Leucosolenida (2 samples), 1 species of Chondrosida (1 sample), 3 species of Spirophorida (28 samples), 6 species of Hadromerida (80 samples), 3 genus of Halichondrida (15 samples), 5 species of Haplosclerida (125 samples), 1 species of Petrosina (1 sample), 1 species of Dendroceratida (14 samples) and 51 records identified at class level.

Phylum Porifera (Sponges)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1994-01-01 / 2003-01-01

Project Data

No Description available

Title Benthic biodiversity of Bellingshausen Sea an Antarctic Peninsula: Porifera
Funding Estudios de la fauna y flora bentónica de los fondos de la zona sur de la isla Livingston (Shetlands del Sur, Antártida.(ANT93-0996). Estudios de la fauna y flora bentónica de los fondos de la zona sur de la isla Livingston y áreas adyacentes (Shetlands del Sur, Antártida. (ANT94-1161-E). Fauna y Flora Bentónicas de los fondos del Sur de la Isla Livingston y áreas adyacentes: estudio del material biológico y datos recogidos en las campañas nacionales del Bentos Antártico. (ANT95-1011). Muestreos bentónicos en áreas volcánicas de la cuenca del Bransfield (Antártida). (ANT96-2440-E). Ampliación del Proyecto: Fauna y flora bentónica de los fondos de la zona sur de isla Livingston y áreas adyacentes. Estudio del material biológico y datos recogidos en las dos campañas españolas de bentos antártico (ANT97-2097-E). Estudio integrado de la biodiversidad bentónica del Mar de Bellingshausen y Península Antártica (Antártida del Oeste) (Segunda Campaña de Muestreo a bordo del BIO Hespérides) MCYT REN2003-01881/ANT.
Study Area Description The study area of this dataset was set in the Antarctic Ocean Bellingshausen Sea, Peter I Island and Antarctic Peninsula.
Design Description Porifera represent one of the most important elements in the Antarctic biota due to their considerable diversity and predominance in different areas (Sarà et al., 1992). In the Antarctic benthos, at depths of 100m these sponges can attain a biomass comparable to the highest found in tropical areas (Beliaev & Ushakov, 1957). This circumstance, together with the fact that these areas are rich in silica (Demospongiae and Hexactinellida), the great size of their spicules, their uniform distribution and the shortage of calcareous sponges, are the main aspects that characterize them. In this project we are informatizing and georreferencing the specimens database collected during the Spanish expeditions Bentart 94, Bentart 95, Bentart 03, Gebrap 96 and Ciemar 99/00.

The personnel involved in the project:

Pilar Rios
  • Author

Sampling Methods

- The material examined was collected on board R/V Hesperides, using different methods: rock dredge, Van Veen dredge, anchor dredge, suprabenthic sledge, fish traps, scuba diving, Box corer and Agassiz trawl. - Once on the deck, the content of the samplers was immediately sorted by taxa, washed in cold sea water and classified by specialist of each group. Afterwards, sponge samples were transferred to 80 % ethanol. - The taxonomic identification was performed in the laboratory. The organic matter was digested with nitric acid taken to boiling point, following the methods of Rützler (1978) and Cristobo et al. (1993) and spicules of some samples were examined using a Leica S440 Scanning Electron Microscope.

Study Extent The study area of this dataset was set in the Antarctic Ocean Bellingshausen Sea, Peter I Island and Antarctic Peninsula.
Quality Control Systematics reliability and consistency have been checked by Pilar Rios and Javier Cristobo, identification being based on species descriptions produced by different authors of the literature and compiled in the Systema Porifera (Hooper & Soest, 2002) and for Antarctic species, the doctoral thesis by Rios (2007). The classification system adopted in this work is that proposed by Van Soest & Hajdu (2002).

Method step description:

  1. see sampling description above

Collection Data

Collection Name IEO C.O. Gijon Porifera BENTART
Collection Identifier http://www.gbif.es/ic_colecciones.php?ID_Coleccion=10116
Parent Collection Identifier IEO C.O. Gijon Porifera
Specimen preservation methods Alcohol
Curatorial Units Between 766 and 1,214 specimens

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Ríos P, Cristobo FJ & Urgorri V (2004). Poecilosclerida (Porifera, Demospongiae) collected by the Spanish Antarctic expedition BENTART-94. Cah Biol Mar 45: 97-11
  2. Ríos P & Cristobo FJ (2006). A new species of Biemna (Porifera: Poecilosclerida) from Antarctica: Biemna strongylota. J Mar Biol Assoc UK 86: 949-955
  3. Ríos P & Cristobo FJ (2007). A new species of Phorbas (Porifera: Poecilosclerida) from the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 87: 1485–1490... doi: 10.1017/S0025315407058079
  4. Ríos P & Cristobo FJ (2007). Sponges of genus Myxilla Schmidt, 1862, collected in Antarctic waters by Spanish Antarctic expeditions. Porifera Research: Biodiversity, Innovation and Sustainability 525-546
  5. Ríos, P. (2007). Esponjas del Orden Poecilosclerida de las campañas españolas de bentos antártico. Tesis Doctoral. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. 527pp
  6. Ríos, P. & Cristobo, F.J. (2011). La Exploración Antártica. En: La Antártida, la vida en el límite, las exploraciones Bentart. Ed.: Hercules de Ediciones. ISBN. 978-84-92715-29-9: 50-75.
  7. Ríos, P. & Cristobo, F.J. (2011). Poriferos. En: La Antártida, la vida en el límite, las exploraciones Bentart. Ed.: Hercules de Ediciones. ISBN. 978-84-92715-29-9: 256.
  8. Beliaev, G.M. & Ushakov, P.V. (1957). Certain regularities in the quantitative distribution of the bottom fauna in Antarctic waters. American Institute of Biological Sciences, 112: 116-119.
  9. Cristobo FJ, Urgorri V, Solórzano MR, Ríos P (1993) Métodos de recogida, estudio y conservación de las colecciones de poríferos. In: Palacios F, Martínez C, Thomas B (eds). International Symposium and First World Congress on Preservation and Conservation of Natural History Collections, Madrid 2. Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Archivos. Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid. pp. 277-287
  10. Rützler K (1978) Sponges on coral reefs. In: Stoddart DR, Johanness RE (eds). Coral reefs: research methods. Unesco, Paris. pp. 81-120
  11. Sarà M., Balduzzi A., Barbieri M., Bavestrello G. & Burlando B. (1992). Biogeographic traits and checklist of Antarctic demosponges, Polar Biology, 12: 559-585.
  12. Van Soest, R.W.M. & Hajdu, E. (2002) Systema Porifera: A Guide to the Classification of Sponges, (Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, RW.M. eds.), 1810 pp New York.

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 2f58500b-b776-4fe6-b2b9-cbb32e8cd615
doi:10.15468/ip9pbr
https://ipt.gbif.es/resource?r=poriferabentart