title: Distributional records of Ross Sea (Antarctica) Tanaidacea from museum samples stored in the collections of the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA) and the New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA).
abstract: Here we present distributional records for Tanaidacea specimens collected during several Antarctic expeditions to the Ross Sea: the Italian PNRA expeditions ("V", 1989/1990; "XI", 1995/1996; "XIV", 1998/1999; "XIX", 2003/2004; "XXV", 2009/2010) and the New Zealand historical (New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, NZOI, 1958-1961) and recent ("TAN0402 BIOROSS" voyage, 2004 and "TAN0802 IPY-CAML Oceans Survey 20/20" voyage, 2008) expeditions. Tanaidaceans were obtained from bottom samples collected at depths ranging from 16 to 3543 m by using a variety of sampling gears. On the whole, this contribution reports distributional data for a total of 2953 individuals belonging to 33 genera and 50 species. All vouchers are permanently stored in the Italian National Antarctic Museum collection (MNA), Section of Genoa (Italy) and at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA Invertebrate Collection), Wellington (New Zealand).
authors.affiliation: Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences (DISTAV), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy ; Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA, Section of Genoa), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Piazza
authors.affiliation: Department of Polar Biology and Oceanobiology, University of Lódź, Banacha, Poland.
authors.forename: Magdalena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Błażewicz-Paszkowycz
authors.affiliation: Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA, Section of Genoa), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ghiglione
authors.affiliation: Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences (DISTAV), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy ; Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA, Section of Genoa), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
authors.forename: Maria Chiara
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Alvaro
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Kareen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schnabel
authors.affiliation: Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences (DISTAV), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy ; Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA, Section of Genoa), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schiaparelli
keywords: Antarctica; Crustacea; MNA; NIWA; Peracarida; Ross Sea; Tanaidacea