obisschema_alpheid_zm Albert H. Banner Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology

Honolulu HI US

Dora M. Banner Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology

Honolulu HI US

Albert H. Banner Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology

Honolulu HI US

2026-08-21 eng The dataset comes from a report on which previously unstudied collections of 70 species of alpheid shrimp held by the Zoologisches Museum (at the time of publication, East Berlin) are reported upon. Except for four species from the west coast of the Americas, all specimens were from the Indo-Pacific faunal realm, and principally came from the area of the Pacific south of the equator and west of the International Date Line known as Melanesia (exclusive of the Fiji Archipelago), with 46 species from this area. All of the German specimens were collected before 1914, but we have supplemented the records with six additional collections from Melanesia.During the time of this collection, between 1884 and 1919, the Zoological Museum played a central role in the collection and processing of natural history specimens from the German colonies. It organised expeditions and provided colonial officials and military personnel in Africa, the Pacific and China with guidelines and materials for collecting specimens. Natural history collecting served not only to scientifically document biodiversity, but was also frequently linked to economic and political interests. Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml Specimen GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml marine, harvested by iOBIS To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction. Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0.html CC0-1.0 Indo-Pacific region 33.85 -89.835 35.08 -38.07 1869-09-05 1982-07-18 Alpheid shrimps family Alpheidae This paper is based primarily upon some old collections of alpheid shrimp which are stored at the Zoologisches Museum, Museum fur Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, D.D.R. (East Germany). The specimens have never been identified nor reported on. Most of the specimens were from what were the German colonies in the Pacific from 1884 to 1914, from the area anthropologists call Melanesia, distinct from Polynesia, Micronesia, and Indonesia. Its principal archipelagoes and islands are the Solomons, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, the Bismarcks, and New Guinea. Although the people of the Fiji Archipelago are of a Melanesian/Polynesian mixture, that archipelago is not included in this study as its alpheids were previously reported upon (Banner and Banner 1966), and this collection had no specimens from Fiji. These earlier collections of the Zoologisches Museum have been supplemented by a few minor collections made in more recent times. In addition, the Zoologisches Museum had some collections from other parts of the Indo-Pacific (and even from the Americas) which were also unidentified and unreported; these, too, are reported upon. notPlanned Albert H. Banner Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology

Honolulu HI US

2026-08-21T13:05:41.584+12:00 dataset Banner A H, Banner D M (2026). Old and Unreported Collections of Alpheid Shrimp from the Zoologisches Museum, Berlin, Principally from Melanesia. Version 1.0. Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node. Occurrence dataset. https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=obisschema_alpheid_zm&v=1.0 Banner, A.H. and Banner, D.M., 1984. Old and unreported collections of alpheid shrimp from the Zoologisches Museum, Berlin, principally from Melanesia.