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New deep-sea Amphipoda from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone: 24 new species described under the Sustainable Seabed Knowledge Initiative: One Thousand Reasons campaign
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- 1. University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
- 2. National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom
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The Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) in the central east Pacific holds significant abundances of manganese nodule deposits. The region is subject to intense exploration for potential future deep-sea mining. One of the challenges associated with understanding potential impacts of extraction of these nodules is the insufficient knowledge of the CCZ fauna. In response to the need for improved taxonomic knowledge of the CCZ fauna, the International Seabed Authority (ISA) initiated the Sustainable Seabed Knowledge Initiative: One Thousand Reasons campaign, aiming to describe 1000 species new to science before the end of the decade. Within this call, a taxonomic workshop "New species of Amphipoda from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone" took place at the University of Lodz, Poland in February 2024, providing the impetus for the description of 24 new species of amphipods from the central Pacific abyss. This special issue is devoted to the publication of the new species from the workshop, and we summarise those findings here.
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