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- Title
Echinoids and Crinoids from Terra Nova Bay (Ross Sea) Based on a Reverse Taxonomy Approach.
- Authors
Guzzi, Alice; Alvaro, Maria Chiara; Cecchetto, Matteo; Schiaparelli, Stefano
- Abstract
The identification of species present in an ecosystem and the assessment of a faunistic inventory is the first step in any ecological survey and conservation effort. Thanks to technological progress, DNA barcoding has sped up species identification and is a great support to morphological taxonomy. In this work, we used a "Reverse Taxonomy" approach, where molecular (DNA barcoding) analyses were followed by morphological (skeletal features) ones to determine the specific status of 70 echinoid and 22 crinoid specimens, collected during eight different expeditions in the Ross and Weddell Seas. Of a total of 13 species of sea urchins, 6 were from the Terra Nova Bay area (TNB, Ross Sea) and 4 crinoids were identified. Previous scientific literature reported only four species of sea urchins from TNB to which we added the first records of Abatus cordatus (Verrill, 1876), Abatus curvidens Mortensen, 1936 and Abatus ingens Koehler, 1926. Moreover, we found a previous misidentification of Abatus koehleri (Thiéry, 1909), erroneously reported as A. elongatus in a scientific publication for the area. All the crinoid records are new for the area as there was no previous faunistic inventory available for TNB.
- Subjects
ANTARCTICA; BIOLOGICAL classification; SCIENTIFIC literature; GENETIC barcoding; TAXONOMY; ECOLOGICAL surveys; SEA urchins
- Publication
Diversity (14242818), 2023, Vol 15, Issue 7, p875
- ISSN
1424-2818
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/d15070875