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Meiofauna of the Mar Piccolo of Taranto (Ionian Sea), 2013-2014

Meiofauna monitoring in the Mar Piccolo of Taranto (Ionian Sea, southern Italy), 2013-2014 in the framework of the Italian flagship project RITMARE. In June 2013 and April 2014, sampling was carried out at four sites by scuba divers who collected five virtually undisturbed sediment cores using polycarbonate sample tubes (12.7 cm I.D. with a sample area of 127 cm2). In laboratory, one sediment core was subsampled by means of 3 cut-off plastic syringes (2.7 cm I.D., surface area of 5.72 cm2, 0-10 cm top sediment) in order to obtain three pseudoreplicates for the meiofauna. Meiofaunal organisms (38–1000 µm) were extracted from sediment subsamples by sieving each pseudoreplicate and by centrifuging the material retained by a 38 μm mesh net with Ludox HS-40 (density of 1.15–1.18 g cm−3). All meiobenthic organisms were counted and taxonomically classified to the main groups under a stereomicroscope (Olympus SZX12; final magnification of 32-40x)

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Publication Date
2021-12-02
Title

Meiofauna of the Mar Piccolo of Taranto (Ionian Sea), 2013-2014

Abstract

Meiofauna monitoring in the Mar Piccolo of Taranto (Ionian Sea, southern Italy), 2013-2014 in the framework of the Italian flagship project RITMARE. In June 2013 and April 2014, sampling was carried out at four sites by scuba divers who collected five virtually undisturbed sediment cores using polycarbonate sample tubes (12.7 cm I.D. with a sample area of 127 cm2). In laboratory, one sediment core was subsampled by means of 3 cut-off plastic syringes (2.7 cm I.D., surface area of 5.72 cm2, 0-10 cm top sediment) in order to obtain three pseudoreplicates for the meiofauna. Meiofaunal organisms (38–1000 µm) were extracted from sediment subsamples by sieving each pseudoreplicate and by centrifuging the material retained by a 38 μm mesh net with Ludox HS-40 (density of 1.15–1.18 g cm−3). All meiobenthic organisms were counted and taxonomically classified to the main groups under a stereomicroscope (Olympus SZX12; final magnification of 32-40x)

Dataset Language

en

 
Dataset Creator
  National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics - Paola Del Negro

Dataset Creator
  National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics - Annalisa Franzo

Metadata Provider
  Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

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https://www.vliz.be
Dataset Contact
  National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics - Annalisa Franzo

Keywords (ASFA)
  • Marine

  • Meiobenthos

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

EurOBIS calculated BBOX > station Bounding Box

Bounding Box

West Bounding Coordinate

17.26055555

East Bounding Coordinate

17.29611111

North Bounding Coordinate

40.48361111

South Bounding Coordinate

40.47944444

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

MED, Italy, Puglia, Mare Piccolo

Temporal Coverage

Range of Dates

Begin Date

2013-06-11

End Date

2014-04-07

Taxonomic Coverage

General Taxonomic Coverage

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1300

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name

class

Taxonomic Rank Value

Arachnida

Taxonomic Coverage

General Taxonomic Coverage

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name

class

Taxonomic Rank Value

Bivalvia

Taxonomic Coverage

General Taxonomic Coverage

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:101

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name

class

Taxonomic Rank Value

Gastropoda

Taxonomic Coverage

General Taxonomic Coverage

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:889925

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name

class

Taxonomic Rank Value

Hexanauplia

Taxonomic Coverage

General Taxonomic Coverage

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1071

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name

class

Taxonomic Rank Value

Malacostraca

Taxonomic Coverage

General Taxonomic Coverage

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1078

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name

class

Taxonomic Rank Value

Ostracoda

Taxonomic Coverage

General Taxonomic Coverage

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:883

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name

class

Taxonomic Rank Value

Polychaeta

License Information

Intellectual Rights

This work is licensed under a

Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

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Additional Metadata

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Extra metadata added by VLIZ to add parameter, platform info, as well as GBIF fields

Metadata

GBIF Metadata Block

Date Stamp

2021-12-02T15:27:27+01:00

Hierarchy Level

dataset

Citation

Franzo A. and Del Negro P. (2020): Meiofauna of the Mar Piccolo of Taranto (Ionian Sea), 2013-2014. OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography. Italy. Dataset/Occurrence. https://nodc.inogs.it/metadata/doidetails?doi=10.6092/cbcda0f7-4599-4fce-ba2c-c337879443ee

Physical

Object Name

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Object Name

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Distribution

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Object Name

IPT

Character Encoding

UTF-8

Data Format

Externally Defined Format

Format Name

HTML

Distribution

Online

URL
https://nodc.inogs.it/ipt/resource?r=meiofauna_taranto

Physical

Object Name

DOI

Character Encoding

UTF-8

Data Format

Externally Defined Format

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Distribution

Online

URL
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Distribution

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Object Name

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Data Format

Externally Defined Format

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Distribution

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