Benthic and benthopelagic Ostracoda from a wide depth range (189-6224 m) in the Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean

This dataset contains abundance (i.e., absolute number of
speicmens/individuals) of ostracod genera collected during three
cruises of the German Research Vessel Polarstern in the Atlantic
Sector of the Southern Ocean. The cruises are EASIZ II (PS
48/ANT XV-3), ANDEEP I (PS 61/ANT XIX-3), ANDEEP
II (PS 67/ANTXXII-3), and ANDEEP III (PS 67/ANTXXII-4). The
samples related to the present file were all collected using an epibenthic
sledge, described by (Brandt & Barthel, 1995; Brenke, 2005, see
compelte references in Brandão et al., 2021, Zoological Journal of the
Linnean Society). These ostracods are both benthic (most
specimens collected) and bentho-pelagic (Halocyprididae, which in the case
of the present dataset, swam just above the sea floor).