obisschema_ostracoda_swpacific K. G. McKenzie Riverina-Murray Institute of Higher Education

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K. G. McKenzie Riverina-Murray Institute of Higher Education

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2026-09-01 eng A study of Ostracoda and other microfauna from the S. W. Pacific commenced in 1980. This study based on material sampled during a number of cruises coordinated by CCOP/SOPAC (Committee for Coordination of Joint Prospecting for Mineral Resources in South Pacific Offshore Areas). These hereafter-called SOPAC Cruises included collections from the Cook Islands (CK-76), Samoa (WS-76), Tonga (T-76, T-77, T-78) and Solomon Islands (SI-81). The work on these collections was part of a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).Most of the SOPAC offshore work between 1976-1981 was directed towards the investigation of manganese nodules, phosphorites and precious corals and to this purpose a variety of sampling devices were used. They included: free fall corer, free fall grab, Van Veen grab, gravity corer, tangle nets, rock dredge, wire lowered grab, pipe dredge and pipe dredge. Often, the sediments collected were too coarse, finer material being lost as a grab was winched up. Nevertheless, much suitable remains, particularly for stations where cores were taken or large samples were dredged up. Of the several hundred samples which were collected, around 60 were prepared for this study.  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 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html CC-BY-4.0 South western Pacific Ocean 158.565 -170.6483 -5.4933 -22.3262 class Ostracoda notPlanned K. G. McKenzie Riverina-Murray Institute of Higher Education

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2026-09-01T16:23:50.507+12:00 dataset McKenzie K G (2026). A comparative study of Ostracoda collections from the S.W. Pacific. Version 1.0. Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node. Occurrence dataset. https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=obisschema_ostracoda_swpacific&v=1.0 McKenzie, K. G. 1986. A comparative study of collections from the S.W. Pacific (Saipan to Tonga), with the descriptions of Gambiella caudata (Brady, 1890) and a new species of Pterobairdia (Ostracoda), J. Micropalaeontol., 5, 13