Table 1 Taxonomic overview and comparison of metazoan taxa identified with molecular (COI gene and 18S V9 region) and morphological data.
Taxa | Molecular | Morphology | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
COI | V 9 | total abundance (ind.m−3) | Percentage (%) | |||||||||
No of total reads | Percentage (%) | No of total reads | Percentage (%) | |||||||||
Canyon | LTER-MC | Canyon | LTER-MC | Canyon | LTER-MC | Canyon | LTER-MC | Canyon | LTER-MC | Canyon | LTER-MC | |
Holoplankton | ||||||||||||
Amphipoda | 4212 | 0.1 | 849 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.48 | 0.0 | ||||
Appendicularia | 6858 | 608 | 2.9 | 0.3 | 57.83 | 54.97 | 2.7 | 0.5 | ||||
Chaetognata | 87,405 | 37,391 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 21,560 | 14,033 | 9.1 | 6.0 | 12.53 | 74.99 | 1.0 | 0.7 |
Copepoda | 3,466,556 | 3,004,170 | 81.0 | 70.2 | 145,109 | 81,608 | 61.4 | 35.0 | 1897.98 | 7937.79 | 83.7 | 72.3 |
Diplostraca (Cladocera) | 139,916 | 229,572 | 3.3 | 5.4 | 165.71 | 1962.76 | 5.8 | 17.9 | ||||
Euphausiacea | 103,743 | 157,320 | 2.4 | 3.7 | 3160 | 29,470 | 1.3 | 12.7 | 4.60 | 98.15 | 0.2 | 0.9 |
Hydromedusae | 9828 | 14,826 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 1450 | 29 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.96 | 5.65 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
Ostracoda | 195,002 | 5570 | 4.6 | 0.1 | 23,361 | 137 | 9.9 | 0.1 | 82.51 | 1.52 | 3.5 | 0.0 |
Pelagiidae | 2994 | 1928 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.96 | 0.0 | ||||||
Pteropoda | 82,478 | 8464 | 1.9 | 0.2 | ||||||||
Siphonophorae | 77,769 | 110,336 | 1.8 | 2.6 | 4.08 | 0.1 | ||||||
Thaliacea | 19 | 60 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7003 | 328 | 3.0 | 0.1 | 7.12 | 583.48 | 0.3 | 5.3 |
Meroplankton | ||||||||||||
Anthozoa | 25,430 | 1 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 548 | 10 | 0.2 | 0.0 | ||||
Bryozoa | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||
Cirripedia | 393 | 248,715 | 0.0 | 5.8 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 76.09 | 0.7 | ||
Decapoda | 1451 | 198,907 | 0.0 | 4.6 | 0.51 | 76.28 | 0.0 | 0.7 | ||||
Echinodermata | 28,809 | 18,994 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8.19 | 9.12 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
Hemichordata | 2085 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||
Malacostraca | 15 | 87,166 | 0.0 | 37.4 | ||||||||
Mollusca_Bivalvia | 1510 | 768 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1213 | 840 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 48.04 | 101.72 | 2.0 | 0.9 |
Mollusca_Gastropoda | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3015 | 1642 | 1.3 | 0.7 | ||||
Pisces | 2712 | 180,875 | 0.1 | 4.2 | 702 | 57 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 2.40 | 0.0 | ||
Polychaeta | 39,978 | 13,330 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 5381 | 832 | 2.3 | 0.4 | 1.01 | 0.12 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Others | 15,893 | 15,818 | 6.7 | 6.8 | ||||||||
