The Annelid Community of a Natural Deep-sea Whale Fall off Eastern Australia

In the deep ocean, whale falls (deceased whales that sink to the seafloor) act as a boost of productivity in this otherwise generally food-limited setting, nourishing organisms from sharks to microbes during the various stages of their decomposition. Annelid worms are habitual colonizers of whale falls, with new species regularly reported from these settings and their systematics helping to resolve biogeographic patterns among deep-sea organic fall environments. During a 2017 expedition of the Australian research vessel RV Investigator to sample bathyal to abyssal communities off Australia’s east coast, a natural whale fall was opportunistically trawled at ~1000 m depth. Nine new species are described.
The data has been acquired on the following RV Investigator voyage
<a href=\"https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/survey_details.cfm?survey=IN2017_V03\">IN2017_V03</a> with links to additional metadata, datasets, events, deployments, publications etc.

If this data has been used in any products, please acknowledge with the following: We acknowledge the use of the CSIRO Marine National Facility (https://ror.org/01mae9353) in undertaking this research.

在深海生态系统中，鲸落（whale falls）——即沉没至海底的鲸类尸体——是原本普遍缺乏食物资源的生境中的生产力助推因子，在其分解的各个阶段可为从鲨鱼到微生物的各类生物提供营养支撑。环节动物蠕虫（Annelid worms）是鲸落生境的惯常定居类群，此类生境中不断有新物种被报道，该类群的分类学研究也有助于解析深海有机沉降生境间的生物地理格局。
2017年，澳大利亚科研调查船“探索者号”（RV Investigator）前往澳大利亚东海岸外开展半深海带（bathyal）至深渊带（abyssal）群落采样考察期间，在约1000米水深处偶然拖网获取一处天然鲸落。本次研究共描述9个新物种。
本数据集采集自下述“探索者号”（RV Investigator）考察航次 <a href="https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/survey_details.cfm?survey=IN2017_V03">IN2017_V03</a>，该链接还可访问额外元数据、数据集、采样事件、部署记录及相关出版物等资源。
若将本数据集用于任何研究产出，请按以下方式致谢：本研究使用了澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织（CSIRO）海洋国家设施（https://ror.org/01mae9353）开展相关工作，特此致谢。