The Register of Antarctic Marine Species

The taxonomic scope of RAMS covers Antarctic species from the three realms of the Southern Ocean: the sea floor (meio-, macro- and megazoobenthos; micro- and macrophytobenthos), the water column (phytoplankton, zooplankton, nekton) and the sea-ice.

1. Animalia
2. Acanthocephala
3. Annelida
4. Clitellata
5. Hirudinea
6. Euhirudinea
7. Arhynchobdellida
8. Hirudinidae
9. Oligochaeta
10. Polychaeta
11. Canalipalpata
12. Sabellida
13. Siboglinidae
14. Arthropoda
15. Chelicerata
16. Arachnida
17. Acarina
18. Prostigmata
19. Halacaroidea
20. Halacaridae
21. Pycnogonida
22. Crustacea
23. Malacostraca
24. Eumalacostraca
25. Eucarida
26. Decapoda
27. Euphausiacea
28. Peracarida
29. Amphipoda
30. Hyperiidea
31. Cumacea
32. Isopoda
33. Lophogastrida
34. Mysida
35. Tanaidacea
36. Phyllocarida
37. Leptostraca
38. Copepoda
39. Neocopepoda
40. Podoplea
41. Harpacticoida
42. Ostracoda
43. Myodocopa
44. Halocyprida
45. Myodocopida
46. Podocopa
47. Podocopida
48. Brachiopoda
49. Bryozoa
50. Cephalorhyncha
51. Kinorhyncha
52. Chaetognatha
53. Chordata
54. Tunicata
55. Appendicularia
56. Thaliacea
57. Vertebrata
58. Gnathostomata
59. Pisces
60. Tetrapoda
61. Aves
62. Mammalia
63. Theria
64. Carnivora
65. Caniformia
66. Pinnipedia
67. Cetartiodactyla
68. Cetancodonta
69. Cetacea
70. Cnidaria
71. Anthozoa
72. Hexacorallia
73. Hydrozoa
74. Scyphozoa
75. Ctenophora
76. Echinodermata
77. Asterozoa
78. Asteroidea
79. Ophiuroidea
80. Crinozoa
81. Crinoidea
82. Echinozoa
83. Echinoidea
84. Holothuroidea
85. Echiura
86. Mollusca
87. Aculifera
88. Aplacophora
89. Bivalvia
90. Cephalopoda
91. Gastropoda
92. Heterobranchia
93. Opisthobranchia
94. Monoplacophora
95. Polyplacophora
96. Scaphopoda
97. Myxozoa
98. Nematoda
99. Nemertea
100. Platyhelminthes
101. Cestoda
102. Monogenea
103. Trematoda
104. Digenea
105. Turbellaria
106. Porifera
107. Sipuncula
108. Bacteria
109. Chromista
110. Harosa
111. Heterokonta
112. Ochrophyta
113. Khakista
114. Bacillariophyceae
115. Rhizaria
116. Foraminifera
117. Plantae
118. Biliphyta
119. Rhodophyta
120. Viridaeplantae
121. Chlorophyta
122. Protozoa
123. Phaeophyta

The RAMS “area of interest” is the Southern Ocean in its wide sense, as used by oceanographers (e.g. Deacon 1984, Tréguer & Jacques 1992, Longhurst 1998, Rintoul 2007). The priority however is given to the Antarctic region (Southern Ocean s.s. or “Antarctic Ocean”), i.e. the water masses extending south of the Polar Front (formerly known as the Antarctic Convergence) to the coasts of the Antarctic continent. All taxa occurring south of the Polar Front should be included in RAMS. The sub-Antarctic region, here defined as the expanses of water extending from the Polar Front in the south to the Subtropical front in the north (see precisions below), is being progressively covered as well. The location of the various hydrographic fronts of the Southern Ocean is based on Orsi et al. (1995), as modified by Moore et al. (1999) for the location of Antarctic Polar Front south of Kerguelen Islands on the Kerguelen Plateau. See AAD Southern Ocean maps 2006 (with location of fronts according to Orsi et al. 1995), downloadable as pdf’s at: http://www.scarmarbin.be/documents/sthn_ocean_west_300dpi_13276.pdf http://www.scarmarbin.be/documents/sthn_ocean_east_300dpi_13277.pdf ANTARCTIC ZONE (Southern Ocean s.s. = Antarctic Ocean): - True northern limit: Antarctic Polar Front (or Antarctic Convergence, 48°S to 63°S, convenient average limit: 55°S). - Operational northern limits for data trawling (see map below): South Atlantic: - Between 60°W and 50°W: 57°S - Between 50°W and 30°E: 50°S (same limits as CCAMLR) Indian Ocean: - Between 30°E and 80°E: 50°S - Between 80°E and 150°E: 55°S (same limits as CCAMLR) South Pacific: - Between 150°E and 60°W: 60°S (same limits as CCAMLR) SUB-ANTARCTIC ZONE - True southern limit: the Antarctic Polar Front. - True northern limit: the northernmost limit of the Southern Ocean s.l., i.e. the northern limit of the extension of the sub-Antarctic water masses, which corresponds to the (nearly) circumpolar sub-Tropical Front (30°S to 47°S, convenient average limit: 43°S). In addition to the open ocean zones defined by hydrographic fronts, the SCAR-MarBIN “area of interest” has also to take into account the sub-Antarctic coastal zones, in particular in southern South America (i.e. the sub-Antarctic Magellanic biogeographic province; see e.g. Boltovskoy et al. 1999; Lopez Gappa et al. 2006; De Broyer et al. 2007) and the various islands of the sub-Antarctic region (e.g. the New Zealand sub-Antarctic islands such as The Snares, Antipodes and Bounty; see e.g. Knox 1987). - Operational northern limits for data trawling (see map below): South Atlantic and Indian Ocean: - Between 65°W and 140°E: 43°S Pacific Ocean: - Between 140°E and 176°W: 48°S - Between 176°W and 80°W: 45°S - Between 80°W and 72°W: 41°S Shapefiles for the Area of Interest (AoI) can be downloaded from http://share.biodiversity.aq/Atlas/Resources/Geographic_Scope/Shapefiles/ A picture of the RAMS AoI is visible at http://share.biodiversity.aq/Atlas/Resources/Geographic_Scope/Shapefiles/ATLAS-AoI.png