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Review of the genus Laevilacunaria across its distribution in the Southern Ocean

Citation

Schmider Martínez A, Maturana C, Rosenfeld S, Poveda Y, López Farrán Z, Gerard K, Saucède T, Morin V, González Wevar C (2023). Review of the genus Laevilacunaria across its distribution in the Southern Ocean. Version 1.3. Instituto de Biodiversidad de Ecosistemas Antárticos y Subantárticos (BASE). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/eequqq accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-06-16.

Description

The present dataset is a compilation of georeferenced occurrences of the littorinid genus Laevilacunaria (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the Southern Ocean. Occurrence data were obtained from field samplings (Antarctic and sub-Antarctic expeditions) between 2015 and 2022 together with a revision of published literature including records from 1890 to 2022. A total of three Laevilacunaria species have been recorded across the Southern Ocean; Laevilacunaria bennetti, Laevilacunaria antarctica and Laevilacunaria pumilio. The present dataset reaches a total of 70 occurrences, representing the most exhaustive occurrence database of this Antarctic and sub-Antarctic littorinid genus.

Purpose

This dataset was created within the framework of the undergraduate thesis of the first author and part of the main research of the principal investigator. The main objective of the data set is built a baseline of the geographic distribution as a complement of the research on the biogeography of litorinids that is currently being carried out in the Laboratorio de Genomica y Ecología Molecular Antártica y Subantártica.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

The database includes all samples collected by several Chilean and British expeditions between 2017 and 2022 in several locations across the South Shetland Islands (Greenwich Island, King George Island, Livingstone Island, Robert Island, Deception Island, Doumar Island,), west part of the Antarctic Peninsula (Margarita Bay, Isabel Riquelme Island) and South Georgia (Trinity Island South Georgia Island). Additionally, we added specimens collected during French Expedition under the IPEV expedition in 2021. Finally, we include published literature records from Signy Island, Anvers Island, Archipelagos of Palmer, Elephant Island, Archipelagos of Melchior, and the Vestfold Hills

Sampling

The sampling took place in different localities by hand and was carried out by national and international researchers. The sampling methodology presents variations related to the field team, the particular conditions of weather, and each collecting place. Samples were taken directly from different substrates in which Laevilacunaria habitat (rocks, algae, or sediments) within the intertidal and subtidal. All samples were immediately preserved in ethanol (95%). Georeferences positions were recorded using GPS in each sampling location.

Quality Control

Records lacking precise geographic location (coordinates) were assigned georeferences by identification from the description (e.g. bay names, research stations) of the reported collection locality included in the relevant metadata.

Method steps

  1. Samples were taken from rocks, macroalgae and sediments within the intertidal and subtidalzone.
  2. All samples were immediately preserved in ethanol (95%).
  3. Georeferences positionswere recorded using GPS in each sampling location.

Additional info

This database will be linked to a datapaper publish in the topical collection “Antarctic and Southern Ocean biodiversity” in the open-access Pensoft “Biodiversity Data Journal”

Taxonomic Coverages

The database presents the distribution of the species Laevilacunaria antarctica, L. bennetti, and L. pumilio.
  1. Laevilacunaria
    rank: genus
  2. Laevilacunaria antarctica
    rank: species
  3. Laevilacunaria bennetti
    rank: species
  4. Laevilacunaria pumilio
    rank: species

Geographic Coverages

The dataset comprises the distribution of the genus Laevilacunaria in the Southern Oceanincluding the Antarctic Peninsula with its archipelagos (Margarita Bay, Isabel Riquelme Island), the South Shetland Islands (Greenwich Island, King George Island, Livingstone Island, RobertIsland, Deception Island, Doumar Island), and the sub-Antarctic Islands of Kerguelen, Crozet,South Georgia Island and Trinity Island. The southern point of sampling is Margarita Bay, thenorthern end of the geo

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Contacts

Andreas Schmider Martínez
originator
position: Marine Biologist
Universidad Austral de Chile
Independencia 631
Valdivia
CL
email: schmiderandi@yahoo.de
Claudia Maturana
originator
position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Instituto de Biodiversidad de Ecosistemas Antárticos y Subantárticos (BASE)
Las Palmeras 3425
Santiago
7800024
Metropolitan
Telephone: 229787178
email: claudiamaturana@uchile.cl
homepage: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Claudia-Maturana
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4427-8093
Sebastián Rosenfeld
originator
position: PhD student | Assistant Professor
Universidad de Chile | Instituto de Biodiversidad de Ecosistemas Antárticos y Subantárticos (BASE) | Universidad de Magallanes
Las Palmeras 3425
Santiago
7800024
Metropolitan
CL
Telephone: 229787178
email: sebastian.rosenfeld@umag.cl
homepage: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sebastian_Rosenfeld2
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4363-8018
Yarleth Poveda
originator
position: Undergraduate student
Universidad Austral de Chile
Independencia 631
Valdivia
CL
email: yarleth.jesus@gmail.com
Zambra López Farrán
originator
position: PhD student
Universidad de Chile
Las Palmeras 3425
Santiago
7800024
Metropolitan
CL
Telephone: 229787178
email: zambralopez@gmail.com
homepage: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zambra-Lopez
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8851-3190
Karin Gerard
originator
position: Associate researcher
Universidad de Magallanes | Instituto de Biodiversidad de Ecosistemas Antárticos y Subantárticos (BASE)
Av. Pdte. Manuel Bulnes 01855
Punta Arenas
CL
email: karin.gerard@umag.cl
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0596-1348
Thomas Saucède
originator
position: Associate Professor
University of Bourgone
FR
email: thomas.saucede@u-bourgogne.fr
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6056-4447
Vannesa Morin
originator
position: Undergraduate Student
Universidad Austral de Chile
Independencia 631
Valdivia
CL
Claudio González Wevar
originator
position: Assistant Researcher
Universidad Austral de Chile | Instituto de Biodiversidad de Ecosistemas Antárticos y Subantárticos (BASE)
Independencia 631
Valdivia
de Los Ríos
CL
homepage: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Claudio-Gonzalez-Wevar
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0807-8032
Andreas Schmider Martínez
metadata author
position: Undergraduate student
Universidad Austral de Chile
Independencia 631
Valdivia
CL
email: schmiderandi@yahoo.de
Claudia Maturana
metadata author
position: Postdoctoral Investigator
Instituto de Biodiversidad de Ecosistemas Antárticos y Subantárticos (BASE)
Las Palmeras 3425
Santiago
7800024
Metropolitan
Telephone: 229787178
email: claudiamaturana@uchile.cl
homepage: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Claudia-Maturana
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4427-8093
Karin Gerard
metadata author
position: Associate researcher
Universidad de Magallanes | Instituto de Biodiversidad de Ecosistemas Antárticos y Subantárticos (BASE)
Av. Pdte. Manuel Bulnes 01855
Punta Arenas
CL
email: karin.gerard@umag.cl
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0596-1348
Vannesa Morin
metadata author
position: Undergraduate Student
Universidad Austral de Chile
Independencia 631
Valdivia
CL
Sebastián Rosenfeld
metadata author
position: PhD student | Assistant Professor
Universidad de Chile | Instituto de Biodiversidad de Ecosistemas Antárticos y Subantárticos (BASE) | Universidad de Magallanes
Las Palmeras 3425
Santiago
7800024
Metropolitan
CL
Telephone: 229787178
email: sebastian.rosenfeld@umag.cl
homepage: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sebastian_Rosenfeld2
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4363-8018
Claudio González Wevar
metadata author
position: Assistant Researcher
Universidad Austral de Chile | Instituto de Biodiversidad de Ecosistemas Antárticos y Subantárticos (BASE)
Independencia 631
Valdivia
de Los Ríos
CL
homepage: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Claudio-Gonzalez-Wevar
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0807-8032
Andreas Schmider Martínez
author
position: Undergraduate student
Universidad Austral de Chile
Independencia 631
Valdivia
CL
email: schmiderandi@yahoo.de
Claudia Maturana
author
position: Postdoctoral Investigator
Instituto de Biodiversidad de Ecosistemas Antárticos y Subantárticos (BASE)
Las Palmeras 3425
Santiago
7800024
Metropolitan
Telephone: 229787178
email: claudiamaturana@uchile.cl
homepage: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Claudia-Maturana
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4427-8093
Claudio González-Wevar
principal investigator
position: Associated Professor
Universidad Austral de Chile | Instituto de Biodiversidad de Ecosistemas Antárticos y Subantárticos(BASE)
Independencia 631
Valdivia
CL
email: claudio.gonzalez@uach.cl
homepage: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Claudio-Gonzalez-Wevar
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0807-8032
Elie Poulin
author
position: Associated Professor
Universidad de Chile | Instituto de Biodiversidad de Ecosistemas Antárticos y Subantárticos (BASE)
Las Palmeras 3425
Santiago
7800024
Metropolitan
CL
Telephone: 229787178
email: epoulin@uchile.cl
homepage: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elie-Poulin
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7736-0969
Andreas Schmider Martínez
administrative point of contact
position: Marine Biologist
Universidad Austral de Chile
Universidad Austral de Chile
Valdivia
CL
email: schmiderandi@yahoo.de
Claudio González-Wevar
administrative point of contact
position: Associated Professor
Universidad Austral de Chile | Instituto de Biodiversidad de Ecosistemas Antárticos y Subantárticos(BASE)
Independencia 631
Valdivia
CL
email: claudio.gonzalez@uach.cl
homepage: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Claudio-Gonzalez-Wevar
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0807-8032
Claudia Maturana
administrative point of contact
position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Instituto de Biodiversidad de Ecosistemas Antárticos y Subantárticos (BASE)
Las Palmeras 3425
Santiago
7800003
Metropolitan
CL
email: claudiamaturana@uchile.cl
homepage: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Claudia_Maturana2
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4427-8093
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