TABLE 2 in Towards a better understanding of deep-sea tardigrade biogeography: numerous new records from the Southern Ocean

TABLE 2. Abundances and densities (individuals/10 cm 2) of Tardigrada in the different sea regions sampled during expeditions ANDEEP 1, 2, 3 and ANDEEP-SYSTCO. A total of 1,210 of the 1,397 individuals from a total of n=130 core samples were identified to genus and mostly to species level (see Tables 3–4).
abundance (sum of cores)abundance (mean)SDdensity (mean)SDnN-W Cape Basin214.202.040.590.295S-W Cape Basin437.175.341.010.756Cape Basin Shona Ridge796.084.800.880.6913Lazarev Sea Maud Rise217.002.451.010.353Lazarev Sea Antarctic Shelf46065.7120.769.013.997Weddell Sea275.401.502.120.595Ona Basin3229.476.883.712.7034Shackleton Fracture Zone273.864.491.511.767South Shetland Trench3977.946.612.952.5550total1397130