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Received: 10 April 2024

Accepted: 25 September 2024

First Online: 18 October 2024

Declarations

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: All samples are invertebrate samples from museum collections. <i>Alexandromenia crassa</i>,<i> Wirenia argentea</i>, and <i>Kruppomenia borealis</i> were collected in the framework of university courses of the University of Bergen (Norway) for which no special permits were necessary. Specimen ZSM Mol 20090329 (ANT XXIV/2 ANDEEP-SYSTCO cruise) was collected under the permit number 94 003–03/203 issued by the German Federal Environmental Agency (UBA). Sample ZSM Mol 20240448 (ANT XXVIII/3 SYSTCO cruise) was collected in international water and no special permit was required. Specimen ZSM Mol 20190581 was collected in concordance with the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU Nr. 049) signed in Vladivostok (Russia) in April 2016 between representatives of A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology (IMB, Valdivostok, Russia) and the German Center for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB), issuing permission to sample based of the Plan for Marine Scientific Studies in the Internal Maritime Waters, Territorial Sea, Exclusive Economic Zone and on the Continental Shelf of the Russian Federation for 2016, approved by Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation dated December 28, 2015, N1531, paragraph 38.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.