CEAMARC Eastern Antarctic Gelatinous Mesozooplankton (Cnidaria and Ctenophora)

Dhugal J. Lindsay; Marie Grossmann

doi:10.15468/sakir7

CEAMARC Eastern Antarctic Gelatinous Mesozooplankton (Cnidaria and Ctenophora)

Citation

Lindsay, D.J. & Fuentes, V.L. 2010. Antarctic Gelatinous Predator Database (ANGELbase):A study of the gelatinous mesozooplankton (Cnidaria and Ctenophora) of Eastern Antarctica, summer 2008. Mary Grossmann, under the direction of Dhugal J. Lindsay. Master thesis, Master Oceanographie et Environnements Marins, Paris VI, 2010 https://doi.org/10.15468/sakir7 accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-05-22.

Description

This dataset holds occurrence data of gelatinous mesozooplankton species (Cnidaria and Ctenophora) that was collected during the Japanese contribution to the Collaborative East Antarctic Marine Census (CEAMARC) project. CEAMARC was a multinational contribution to the Census for Antarctic Marine Life (CAML, IPY Project 53). It involved scientists and students from several nations using three ships from Australia, Japan and France surveying the one area. This collaboration was a highly coordinated and comprehensive survey of the plankton, fish, benthos, oceanography and geophysical conditions of the waters north of Terre Adélie and George V Land of Eastern Antarctica. CEAMARC has provided a robust benchmark of the marine life in this poorly studied sector and will help to establish the monitoring of future changes in this region.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

Samples were taken in the Southern Ocean near East Antarctica during the Austral summer of 2008

Sampling

Samples were taken with a multinet or a NORPAC

Method steps

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Taxonomic Coverages

The orders Siphonophorae, Anthoatecata, Leptomedusae, Narcomedusae, Beroida, Anthoathecata and Trachymedusae within the Hydrozoa (Cnidaria) and the Nuda (Ctenophora) were sampled using nets.

Ctenophora
common name: Ctenophora rank: phylum
Cnidaria
common name: Cnidaria rank: phylum

Geographic Coverages

East Antarctica

Bibliographic Citations

Hosie, G., Koubbi, P., Riddle, M., Ozouf-Costaz, C., Moteki, M., Fukuchi, M., ... & Goffart, A. (2011). CEAMARC, the collaborative East Antarctic marine census for the census of Antarctic marine life (IPY# 53): an overview. Polar Science, 5(2), 75-87. - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polar.2011.04.009

Contacts

Dhugal J. Lindsay
originator

Marie Grossmann
originator

Maxime Sweetlove
metadata author
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Brussels
BE
email: msweetlove@naturalsciences.be

Graham Hosie
administrative point of contact
Australian Antarctic Division
Kingston
AU
email: graham.hosie@aad.gov.au