Acknowledgments
Author's Note: SCAR-MarBIN is funded by the Belgian Science Policy (BELSPO, www.belspo.be), SCAR (www.scar.org) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (www.sloan.org). SCAR-MarBIN is implemented within the Belgian Biodiversity Platform (www.biodiversity.be) and acts as the information component of the Census of Antarctic Marine Life (www.caml.aq). OBIS is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and acts as the information component of the Census of Marine Life (www.coml.org). The authors wish to thank Steve LeGore for his thoughtful comments, which helped improving the present communication.