Full description
The project aims to integrate and synthesise data on deepsea octocoral identifications and distribution from CSIRO surveys and museum holdings in Australian waters to support research such as identification of ecological and biological significant areas (EBSA) and vulnerable marine ecosystems (VME), climatology, monitoring of benthic habitats (impacts and recovery) and biogeography. The confirmed octocoral identifications are added to or updated in CAAB as necessary, with 99-codes being established for alpha-species Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) based on the combined collection. In addition, project staff Dr Phil Alderslade is contributing to training workshops and guides for coral identification in collaboration with NIWA. The geographic extent of the project is primarily Australia's EEZ but reaching into neighbouring Oceania regions (e.g. NZ, NC).Physical specimens are lodged with Australian museums based on region of collection: (1) North Tasman Region: Northern Territory Museum & Art Gallery (NTM), with some duplicate specimens lodged with the Australian Museum (AM); (2) south-eastern Australia region: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG); (3) south-western and north-western Australia: Western Australian Museum (WAM).
RELATED ACRONYMS:
RAD -Rank Abundance Distributions
EBSA -Ecological and Biological Significant Areas
VME -Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems
OTU -Operational Taxonomic Units
CAAB -Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CSIRO)
Lineage
Progress Code: onGoing
Maintenance and Update Frequency: continual
Statement: Original field collections using:
- beam trawl (Forest 1981; Lewis 2010),
- CSIRO designed Sherman sled (Lewis 1999; 2009)
- NIWA sled
- rock dredge
- commercial demersal fish trawl
- Ratcatcher trawl (a fish trawl with finer mesh cod-end)
- ROV Jason
- Coincidental collections (Museum specimens)
Notes
CreditFor funding support we would like to thank the CSIRO Wealth from Oceans (WfO) Flagship, the CERF Biodiversity Hub, the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Community (SEWPaC) and the Marine National Facility (MNF), as well as the partners in the NORFANZ Project from New Zealand and from France. In addition, we'd like to thank the collection managers at the Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery, Gavin Dally and Sue Horner
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at the Western Australian Museum, Mark Salotti
at the Western Australian Museum, Mark Salotti
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at the Australian Museum, Stephen Keable, and particularly Kirrily Moore at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery for curating most of the collected material. We would also like to thank the New Caledonia and the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) New Zealand for collaboration on the NORFANZ Expedition and University of Washington (School of Oceanography) who operate the R/V Thomas G. Thompson and the Woods Hole Advanced Imaging and Visualisation Laboratory for their assistance in the Jason program.
at the Australian Museum, Stephen Keable, and particularly Kirrily Moore at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery for curating most of the collected material. We would also like to thank the New Caledonia and the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) New Zealand for collaboration on the NORFANZ Expedition and University of Washington (School of Oceanography) who operate the R/V Thomas G. Thompson and the Woods Hole Advanced Imaging and Visualisation Laboratory for their assistance in the Jason program.
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Alan Williams
Alan Williams
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Franzis Althaus
Franzis Althaus
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Phil Alderslade
Phil Alderslade
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Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Karen Gowlett-Holmes
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Kirrily Moore
Kirrily Moore
Data time period: 1986-07 to 2008-06
text: westlimit=110; southlimit=-45; eastlimit=170; northlimit=-10
text: uplimit=-80; downlimit=-4000
Subjects
Alcyoniidae - undifferentiated |
Cameras |
Clavulariidae - undifferentiated |
Countries | Australia |
Dredges |
Earth Science | Biological Classification | Animals/Invertebrates |
Earth Science | Biological Classification | Animals/Invertebrates | Cnidarians | Anthozoans/Hexacorals |
Earth Science | Biosphere | Aquatic Ecosystems | Benthic Habitat |
Nephtheidae - undifferentiated |
Nidaliidae - undifferentiated |
Norfolk Ridge / Lord Howe Rise Biodiversity Discovery Survey (NORFANZ) |
Offshore Islands (Australia) | Lord Howe Island |
Offshore Islands (Australia) | Norfolk Island |
Order Alcyonacea - undifferentiated |
Paralcyoniidae - undifferentiated |
Regional Seas | Coral Sea |
Research Voyage: FR 02/92 |
Research Voyage: FR 03/86 |
Research Voyage: FR 07/88 |
Research Voyage: SS 01/97 |
Research Voyage: SS 02/2007 |
Research Voyage: SS 05/2007 |
Research Voyage: SS 10/2005 |
Research Voyage: TAN0308 - NORFANZ |
Research Voyage: TT 1/2008 |
Ship: Southern Surveyor |
Ship: Tangaroa |
Sledges/Sleds |
Trawls |
Tubiporidae - undifferentiated |
Xeniidae - undifferentiated |
biota |
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Other Information
CSIRO (2013) CSIRO – Codes for Australian aquatic biota (CAAB). (Data Link)
url :
https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/caab/
Download supplementary file: 5798-17733-1-PB.xls identification list at species level and distribution information. (Data Link)
url :
https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3796.3.2
Australia's deep-water octocoral fauna: historical account and checklist, distributions and regional... Zootaxa 3796(3) (Documentation Link)
url :
https://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2014/3796(3).html
Williams, A. et al. (2011) Composition and distribution of deep-sea benthic invertebrate megafauna on the Lord Howe... (Documentation Link)
Identifiers
- Local : Anzlic Identifier: ANZCW0306014446
- Local : Marlin Record Number: 14446
- global : 06fe9d32-6287-6439-e053-08114f8cc098
