Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
1): 295-302
SCIENTIA MARINA
1999
MAGELLAN-ANTARCTIC: ECOSYSTEMS THAT DRIFTED APART. W.E. ARNTZ and C. ROS (eds.)
SUMMARY: Cumacea (Crustacea) were collected during the Joint Magellan expedition in November 1994, by means of
an epibenthic sledge from RV Victor Hensen. The cumaceans were well represented, the second abundant order after the
amphipods, among the other Peracarida in depth ranges between 25 and 665 m. Twenty-five species were found in the samples mainly from the Beagle Channel, nine of them were already known for this region. 14 species were recorded for the
first time for this region, 2 of them were known from the northern Argentinian coast and one from Antarctica. The most
important in terms of species richness and abundance were the families Diastylidae, Nannastacidae and Leuconidae. In the
Beagle Channel an almost completely different cumacean fauna was found compared to the Subantarctic Islands, the Antarctic Peninsula and eastern Antarctic (Prydz Bay) regions. Comparison of published data and the present results show moderate overlap in the cumacean fauna at the species level between the periantarctic South Georgian shelf / Antarctic Peninsula (48%). Little correspondence at the species level was found between Antarctica / Subantarctic Kerguelen (14 %), South
Georgia / Kerguelen (13 %) and Magellan / Antarctica (11 %). Interestingly, the Magellan region and South Georgia show
very little species overlap (5 %). It is concluded that the Antarctic shelf regions were not colonized from the Magellan region
via the Scotia Arc.
Key words: Cumacea, Antarctica, Subantarctic region, biogeography.
RESUMEN: SOBRE LA BIOGEOGRAFA DE CUMACEA - UNA COMPARACIN ENTRE AMRICA DEL SUR, LAS ISLAS SUBANTRTICAS Y LA ANTRTIDA: ESTADO DE LA CUESTIN. Durante la campaa Joint Magellan con el B/I Victor Hensen en
noviembre de 1994 se capturaron Cumacea (Crustacea) con una draga epibentnica. Los cumceos estuvieron bien representados, despus de los anfpodos fueron los ms abundantes entre los otros Peracarida en mbitos de profundidades entre
25 y 665 m. Se encontraron veintitrs especies en las muestras obtenidas en el Canal del Beagle, nueve de las cuales eran
ya conocidas para la regin. Se han registrado catorce especies por primera vez para esta regin, cuatro de ellas se haban
citado en la costa norte de Argentina. Las familias Diastylidae, Nannastacidae y Leuconidae fueron las ms importantes con
respecto a diversidad de especies y abundancia. En el Canal del Beagle se encontr una fauna de cumceos casi completamente diferente comparada con la de las islas subantrticas, de la Pennsula Antrtica y de las regiones en el este de la Antrtida (Prydz Bay). Comparaciones de los presentes resultados con datos publicados muestran una sobreposicin moderada de
la fauna de cumceos a nivel de especies entre la plataforma periantrtica de Georgia del Sur y la Pennsula Antrtica (48%).
Se encontraron pocas coincidencias entre la Antrtida y las Kerguelen subantrticas (15%), entre Georgia del Sur y las Kerguelen (13%) y entre la regin de Magallanes y la Antrtida (11%). Es interesante destacar que la regin de Magallanes y
Georgia del Sur casi no tienen especies en comn (5%). Se concluye que las regiones de la plataforma antrtica no fueron
colonizadas desde la regin de Magallanes va el Arco de Escocia.
Palabras claves: Cumacea, Antrtida, regin subantrtica, biogeografa.
INTRODUCTION
Very little is known about the fauna of the southern tip of South America and some parts of the
Antarctic in general. This is especially true for the
cumaceans of the Magellan region, as there have
been few benthos expeditions into this part of the
world: The Hamburgische Magellanische Sammelreise 1892/93 (Zimmer, 1902; Panning, 1957); the
Vema expedition 1958-1961, Lamont Geological
Observatory, USA, and the study from the Joint
Chilean-Italian-German Victor Hensen Campaign,
1994 (Arntz and Gorny, 1996).
In the present study the Magellan region is
defined as the shelf of the South American continent
south of 40S including the Falkland Islands.
In 1902 Zimmer described five new cumacean
species. Eight species were known at that time for
the Magellan region. Until the early 1990s, after
Bacescu and his collegues (Bacescu and Muradian,
1974; Muradian, 1976; Petrescu, 1995) examined
the Vema- material, 26 species were reported for
the Magellan region. The present Victor Hensen
expedition increases our knowledge on the Cumacea
from this region. The Antarctic Cumacea are much
better known than the Magellan species, due to the
results of various international Antarctic expeditions
which were undertaken since the 1950s (Ledoyer,
1993).
FIG. 1. EBS stations on the transect through the Beagle Channel (modified after Arntz and Gorny, 1996).
Abbreviations: 19 C.Magdalena, Pta Snchez, 28 C. Ballenero, off Punta Baja, 29 C. Ballenero, 31 C. Beagle, I. Timbal Chico, 33 C. Beagle Romanche, 37 C. Beagle, 39. I. Gardiner, 41 SE I. Picton, 42 Pta Rico,
43 I. Picton, 48 I. Wollaston, 49 off Islas Barnevelt. For exact positions and depths cf. Table 1.
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TABLE 1. Station list of the Joint Magellan Expedition with RV Victor Hensen in 1994: epibenthic sledge stations according to depths.
The first two figures in the station list are the authors counts, the following four figures refer to the station list presented by Arntz and Gorny
(1996).
date
S start
Position
S end
W start
W end
depth (m)
12/11/94
14/11/94
15/11/94
14/11/94
19/11/94
18/11/94
12/11/94
13/11/94
13/11/94
20/11/94
21/11/94
19/11/94
19/11/94
19/11/94
23/11/94
19/11/94
21/11/94
20/11/94
5507.30
5538.52
5506.89
5548.13
5459.43
5500.51
5506.84
5507.92
5508.48
5453.64
5455.17
5458.80
5458.00
5455.12
5417.37
5453.43
5446.84
5454.04
5507.28
5538.57
5506.72
5548.10
5459.51
5500.48
5506.95
5508.00
5508.19
5453.81
5455.23
5458.78
5457.85
5455.11
5417.55
5453.32
5446.90
5454.00
6652.78
6712.86
6639.95
6658.45
6904.64
6653.14
6655.54
6658.28
6657.81
6958.98
7045.15
6901.75
6849.31
6919.89
7051.81
6930.94
7108.48
7012.76
6652.90
6713.26
6639.92
6658.62
6904.28
6653.29
6655.67
6658.31
6658.08
6959.03
7044.81
6901.98
6849.04
6920.13
7051.90
6931.14
7108.35
7012.52
25
40
63
66
100
103
110
117
118
120
135
217
253
265
271
350
580
665
Station list
42-1178
48-1200
41-1213
49-1206
37-1247
39-1237
43-1184
43-1197
43-1194
33-1261
29-1270
37-1248
37-1246
37-1253
19-1307
33-1257
28-1279
31-1263
1178 1184 1200 1206 1213 1237 1246 1247 1248 1253 1257 1261 1263 1270 1279 1307
25 110 40
64
68 104 253 100.6 218.6 265 350 120 650 108- 640 270
119
41
744
178
2415
88
2
1260
53
3
624
26
35
34
45
13
19
2
27
8
22
15
1
25
39
30
10
2
28
1
12
1
17
45
5
1
17
3
60
7
54
1
127
2
8
6
9
3
1
1
37
1
7
169
102
1
24
176
60
1
8
73
58
53
289
15
35
37
1
1
1
571
13
2
29
26
9
6
15
4
43
20
5
2
1
72
7
22
25
20
42
2
1
6
4
1
2
4
1
642
4
11
343
130 5404
127
8
984
16
559 9158
14
17
4
3
6
4
12
136
8
226
10
20
6
16
5
Lampropidae
Hemilamprops ultimaespei
Bodotriidae
Vaunthompsonia sp. 1
Cyclaspis alba
Leuconidae
Leucon assimilis
Leucon meredithi
Leucon cf. meredithi
Eudorella sp.1
Eudorella sp.2
Nannastacidae
Campylaspis bacescui
Campylaspis cf. sticta
Campylaspis sp.1
Campylaspis maculata / frigida
Campylaspis sp. 2
Campylaspis sp. 3
Cumella cf. argentinae1
Cumella cf. argentinae 2
Cumella sp.1
Cumella sp.2
Nannastacidae indet
Diastylidae
Diastylis argentata
Diastylis sp. 1
Diastylis manca
Diastylis planifrons
Diastylopsis robusta
Leptostylis cf. vemae
Total number of species
Sledge
Dredge
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
24
22
TABLE 4. Cumacea of the Magellan and the Antarctic/Subantarctic regions. (+): also described for north of 40 S; n: new record for this
region; A: Argentina; C: Chile; F: Falkland Isl.
SubAntarctic
___________
Depth range
min
max
Antarctica
___________________________________
Scotia Subregion
High Antarctic
Lampropidae
Hemilamprops lotusae
Hemilamprops mawsoni
Hemilamprops pellucidus
Hemilamprops serrulatus
Hemilamprops ultimaespei
Lamprops comatus
Paralamprops asper
Paralamprops rossi
Paralamprops serratocostatus
Platysympus brachyurus
Bacescu, 1969
Hale, 1937
Zimmer, 1907
Ledoyer, 1977
Zimmer, 1921
Zimmer, 1907
Zimmer, 1907
Jones, 1971
Sars, 1887
(Zimmer, 1907)
70
300
226
195
12
3423
385
695
230
385
70
300
3725
195
18
3423
385
695
230
385
Bodotriidae
Atlantocuma benguelae
Atlantocuma elongatum
Atlantocuma tenue
Cyclaspis alba
Cyclaspis cristulata
Cyclaspis gigas
Cyclaspis jonesi
Cyclaspis kerguelensis
Cyclaspis quadrituberculata
Gaussicuma vanhoeffeni
Leptocuma patagonicum
Vaunthompsonia inermis
Vaunthompsonia meridionalis
Bac&Mur, 1974
Ledoyer, 1993
Jones, 1984
Roccatagliata, 1986
Gamo, 1987
Zimmer, 1907
Roccatagliata, 1985
Ledoyer, 1977
Zimmer, 1907
Zimmer, 1907
Roccatagliata, 1993
Zimmer, 1909
Sars, 1887
4893 5223
506
839
587 5000
30
35
276
289
193
700
15
112
195
195
75
75
3423 3423
shallow
24
52
15
310
Leuconidae
Eudorella fallax
Eudorella gracilior
Eudorella sordida
Eudorella splendida/similis
Leucon adelae
Leucon antarcticus
Leucon assimilis
Leucon bacescui
Leucon breidensis
Leucon inexcavatus
Leucon intermedius
Leucon meredithi
Leucon parasiphonatus
Leucon polarsterni
Leucon sagitta
Leucon septemdentatus
Leucon vanhoeffeni/kerguelensis
Leucon vasilei
Leucon weddelli
Zimmer, 1909
Zimmer, 1909
Zimmer, 1907
Zimmer, 1902
Petrescu, 1991
Zimmer, 1907
Sars, 1887
Petrescu, 1994
Gamo, 1987
Ledoyer, 1977
Mh.-Siegel, 1996
Petrescu, 1991
Mh-Siegel, 1994
Ledoyer, 1993
Zimmer, 1907
Zimmer, 1902
Zimmer, 1907
Petrescu, 1994
Ledoyer, 1993
64
75
12
0
237
69
150
116
275
31
280
75
20
1153
12
1
1
3279
399
310
752
250
310
237
1185
232
116
289
31
791
75
424
1223
310
9
10
3279
577
Nannastacidae
Campylaspis antarctica
Campylaspis bacescui
Campylaspis breviramis
Campylaspis excavata
Campylaspis frigida
Campylaspis johnstoni
Campylaspis maculata
Campylaspis nodulosa
Campylaspis quadridentata
Campylaspis quadriplicata
Cumella argentinae
Cumella australis
Cumella pectinifera
Cumellopsis bacescui
Procampylaspis compressa
Procampylaspis meridiana
Schizocuma molossa
Calman, 1907
Muradian, 1976
Ledoyer, 1993
Ledoyer, 1993
Hansen, 1908
Hale, 1937
Zimmer, 1907
Sars, 1887
Ledoyer, 1993
Lomakina, 1968
Jones, 1984
Calman, 1907
Gam, 1987
Muradian, 1979
Zimmer, 1907
Jones, 1971
(Zimmer, 1907)
385
82
457
185
17
193
6
82
406
165
256
46
275
626
385
110
385
6134
1679
462
515
3850
4402
250
5233
506
2707
293
385
289
934
385
110
385
+
+
+
C
+
+
+
+
n
+
+
+
C
(+) n
n
+
+
C
+
+
+
A
+
+
+
+
+
n
n
+
+
+
+
+
n
n
n
+
n
n
n
+
+
+
n
CAF
C
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
CA
+
A
CA
+
+
+
+
C
C
AF
n
A
A
n
A
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
CA
A
+
n
+
n
+
+
+
+
+
C
+
+
n
TABLE 4. (cont.) Cumacea of the Magellan and the Antarctic/Subantarctic regions. (+): also described for north of 40 S; n: new record
for this region; A: Argentina; C: Chile; F: Falkland Isl.
SubAntarctic
___________
Depth range
min
max
Zimmer, 1907
Calman, 1912
Hale, 1937
Ledoyer, 1993
Ledoyer, 1993
(Nicolet, 1849)
Zimmer, 1902
Zimmer, 1907
Sars, 1887
Hale, 1937
(Sars, 1873)
Calman, 1918
Calman, 1912
Ledoyer, 1977
Ledoyer, 1977
Zimmer, 1902
Zimmer, 1907
Rocca&Heard, 1992
(Zimmer, 1902)
Zimmer, 1907
Bacescu-Mester, 1967
Zimmer, 1907
Zimmer, 1902
Bacescu-Mester, 1967
Lomakina, 1968
Jones, 1971
Pseudocumatidae
Kerguelenica platycephala
Ledoyer, 1977
195
195
Ceratocumatidae
Cimmerius subantarcticus
Ledoyer, 1977
196
196
___________________________________
Scotia Subregion
High Antarctic
Diastylidae
Diastylis anderssoni
Diastylis argentata
Diastylis corniculata
Diastylis enigmatica
Diastylis galeronae
Diastylis gayi
Diastylis hammoniae
Diastylis helleri
Diastylis horrida
Diastylis inornata
Diastylis manca
Diastylis mawsoni
Diastylis planifrons
Diastylis pseudoinornata
Diastylis zimmeri
Diastylopsis annulata
Diastylopsis diaphanes
Diastylopsis goekei
Diastylopsis robusta
Leptostylis antipa
Leptostylis chileana
Leptostylis crassicauda
Leptostylis ovalis
Leptostylis vemae
Makrokylindrus baceskei
Makrokylindrus inscriptus
64
310
112
112
218
350
270
280
1165 2012
shallow
102
146
0
640
20
540
150
150
95
95
200
582
12
112
90
90
18
90
4
355
385
385
2
311
4
4
12
310
642
642
123
385
4
4
70
70
2937 2937
808
808
Antarctica
+
+
+
C
A
+
+
+
(+) n
+
CA
+
+
+
+
n
CA
+
C
+
A
A
+
+
31
20
16
16
20
15
29
32
11
Antarctic regions do not show any clear relationship, e.g. Weddell Sea and Antarctic Peninsula (19
%), East Antarctic and Ross Sea (16%).
DISCUSSION
Table 5 implies that the cumacean fauna of the
Antarctic Peninsula would be more similar to the
No of species
Endemic species
Endemism in %
Mag.
Kerg.
31
16
52
20
8
40
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Antarctic
_______________________________________________________________________
Scotia Subregion
High Antarctic
_______________________________
_____________________________________
S.Georgia
S.Ork.
S.Shetl.
Ant.P.
Wedd.
E.Ant.
Ross
16
4
25
16
0
0
20
0
0
15
0
0
29
7
24
32
5
16
11
2
18
S total
overlap S
in %
40
41
44
73
29
53
62
32
21
22
21
38
36
23
21
37
33
23
46
32
37
2
3
2
8
3
1
9
4
10
11
10
7
12
12
17
7
12
3
15
8
6
5
7
4
11
10
2
15
13
48
50
48
18
33
57
81
19
36
13
33
25
16
species of this genus was reported from the Magellan region until now.
A good example is the species Eudorella fallax
which was recorded to be endemic to South Georgia
(Table 4) in the past. Data from a series of samples
from the South Orkney Islands, the South Shetland
Islands, the Antarctic Peninsula, and from the Prydz
Bay area, East Antarctic (Mhlenhardt-Siegel,
unpublished data) show that Eudorella fallax occurs
regularly in samples from all areas mentioned. This
species can therefore no longer be regarded as
endemic to South Georgia, however, it is obviously
endemic for the Antarctic. The example of the
cumacean genus Eudorella in the Antarctic region
has shown the problem of low research effort in
parts of the region very clearly.
Maybe a more detailed analysis of other geographical areas with adequate sampling devices like epibenthic or suprabenthic sledges will reduce the number of
endemic Cumacea species in the subregions of the
Antarctic. The faunal composition of the Cumacea in the
waters around the entire Antarctic continent may then
show different similarities than those seen at present.
Why is there so little overlap between the Magellan and the Antarctic regions?
The reason for this cumacean zoological feature
may be found in the biology of these peracarids:
- Cumacea are living preferably in soft sediments or
hyperbenthically, only occasionally moving into the
water column,
- they are brood protecting, the early life stages are
kept and sheltered in a marsupium.
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