Bouvet Island

A territory of Norway and the world’s most remote island, Bouvet Island is part of the Scotia Sea Islands Tundra ecoregion (EoE). An overview of the marine fauna is at (ResearchGate).

Among the marine invertebrates known only from here are six undescribed molluscs in the following genera: Liotella, Pareuthria, Parabuccinum, Prosipho, Admate, and Toledonia (SpringerLink). Other endemic invertebrates include a king crab Paralomis elongata from the Spiess seamount (NOC) (ResearchGate), a sea slug Tritonia dantarti (ResearchGate) (bioRxiv), the tanaid crustaceans Chauliopleona ciimari (ResearchGate) and Parakanthophoreus greenwichius (ResearchGate), a marine amphipod Atyloella tribinicuspidata (Springer), and a barnacle Weltnerium bouvieri (WoRMS).

Fungi known only from Bouvet Island include Didymella epimelanostola (p. 59 of Norsk Polarinstitutt pdf).