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Shallow-Water Bryozoans and Serpuloideans from the Ross Sea (Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica)

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Bryozoans and serpuloideans were studied during the Italian Antarctic Expeditions (1987–1994) in the Terra Nova Bay area (Ross Sea, Antarctica). Only shallow-water samples (upper shelf, down to 200m) were considered; these gave a preliminary zonation pattern. Both bryozoan and serpuloidean epibiosis was lacking in the Mesolittoral and Upper Infralittoral biotopes. Some deeper assemblages were distinguished: an algal one in the Lower Infralittoral Zone, well characterized by encrusting, r-strategist bryozoan species, most of which appear to be restricted to shallow waters. A second assemblage of the Circalittoral-Pseudobathyal hard bottoms (60–140m) was very rich and diversified, both in species and morphological adaptations. A third assemblage of the Circalittoral-Pseudobathyal soft bottoms was extremely poor but quite diversified, owing to the heterogeneity of the bottom grain size. A fourth assemblage consists in the epibiosis of Adamussium colbecki was rich but poorly diversified, dominated by encrusting species and by the spirorbid Paralaeospira levinseni.

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Rosso, A., Sanfilippo, R. (2000). Shallow-Water Bryozoans and Serpuloideans from the Ross Sea (Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica). In: Faranda, F.M., Guglielmo, L., Ianora, A. (eds) Ross Sea Ecology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59607-0_37

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