Free-living marine nematodes from San Antonio Bay (Río Negro, Argentina)

By

Villares, Gabriela
Russo, Virginia Lo
Pastor de Ward, Catalina T.
Milano, Viviana
Miyashiro, Lidia
Mazzanti, Renato

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2016

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

574

Pages

43-55

Subjects

Chromadorea , Enoplea , Nematoda , south Atlantic

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.574.7222

 

Abstract

The dataset of free-living marine nematodes of San Antonio Bay is based on sediment samples collected in February 2009 during doctoral theses funded by CONICET grants. A total of 36 samples has been taken at three locations in the San Antonio Bay, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina on the coastal littoral at three tidal levels. This presents a unique and important collection for benthic biodiversity assessment of Patagonian nematodes as this area remains one of the least known regions. In total 7,743 specimens of free-living marine nematodes belonging to two classes, eight orders, 37 families, 94 genera and 104 species were collected.