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Twenty-seven species of benthic hydroids have been found in a small collection from off Bouvet Island (Antarctic Ocean). The material was obtained during the XXI/2 German Antarctic expedition with R.V. Polarstern 2003–2004. Of the 27 species collected, 21 were unknown from those waters. Consequently, the number of known species of benthic hydroids from the area has risen to 32, representing a high diversity location for this group in the Southern Ocean considering the sampling effort made. All species, including those previously known from Bouvet waters, are considered with respect to geographical distribution.
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The authors acknowledge the valuable assistance of the officers and crew of the Polarstern, and many colleagues on board during the ANT XXI/2 cruise. We take this opportunity to extend our thanks to the cruise leader Prof. D. Wolf E. Arntz, who kindly facilitated the work on board and for the opportunity and encouragement to study Bouvet collections. Support for this work was provided by the Spanish MEC project REN2003-04236/ANT. This study was also supported by a research contract funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología and the Universidad de Valencia, Spain (Ramón y Cajal Program) and a research project (CGL2004-04684/ANT), funded by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia of Spain and the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER).
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The present work is an addition to the special issue “Macrobenthic studies at Bouvet island”, presenting work carried out from on board RV Polarstern in 2003/2004 and published in Polar Biology 29 (2006)
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Peña Cantero, A.L., Gili, J.M. Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from off Bouvet Island (Antarctic Ocean). Polar Biol 29, 764–771 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-006-0113-x
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