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Radiolarian taxa from Southern Ocean sediment traps (Atlantic sector)

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This study gives a first inventory of radiolarian taxa collected with sediment traps in different areas of the Southern Ocean (Drake Passage, Powell Basin and Bransfield Strait). It includes 66 taxa or taxa groups of which 46 were already described. Two previously described species groups and 20, yet undescribed, taxa are documented. The name Protocystis bicornis (Haecker) is replaced by P. spinosus as it is a later homonym of P. bicornis (Borgert). The occurrence pattern of the radiolarian taxa indicates distinct differences in the species composition between neritic environments (Bransfield Strait and Powell Basin) and pelagic, open ocean conditions (Drake Passage).

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Abelmann, A. Radiolarian taxa from Southern Ocean sediment traps (Atlantic sector). Polar Biol 12, 373–385 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00243108

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