More than 230,000 known species representing 31 metazoan phyla populate the world's
oceans. Perhaps another 1,000,000 or more species remain to be discovered. There is …

DNA barcoding has become a well‐funded, global enterprise since its proposition as a
technique for species identification, delimitation and discovery in 2003. However, the rapid …

Deep-sea sediments represent the largest but least known ecosystem on earth. With
increasing anthropogenic pressure, it is now a matter of urgency to improve our …

Traditionally, taxonomic identification has relied upon morphological characters. In the last
two decades, molecular tools based on DNA sequences of short standardised gene …

Accurate species delimitations are crucial for ecological and conservation studies,
assessments of biotic diversity, and identifying factors driving diversification. Estimates …

More than two third area of our planet is covered by oceans and assessment of marine
biodiversity is a challenging task. With the increasing global population, there is a tendency …

'Biodiversity'means the variety of life and it can be studied at different levels (genetic,
species, ecosystem) and scales (spatial and temporal). Last decades showed that marine …

Species diversity of the metazoan holozooplankton assemblage of the Sargasso Sea,
Northwest Atlantic Ocean, was examined through coordinated morphological taxonomic …

Leptothecata are hydrozoans whose hydranths are covered by perisarc and gonophores
and whose medusae bear gonads on their radial canals. They develop complex polypoid …

Morphology-based profiling of benthic communities has been extensively applied to aquatic
ecosystems' health assessment. However, it remains a low-throughput, and sometimes …