Description
A total of 134 Recent species of azooxanthellate Scleractinia are reported from the Vanuatu (116 species) and Wallis and Futuna (83 species) Archipelagos, all but one being new records for the region of the tropical central Pacific. The newly reported specimens originate primarily from the MUSORSTUM 7 and 8 expeditions, including approximately 4400 specimens from 227 stations, most of these deeper than 100 m. Within the tropical central Pacific these corals show a strong affinity with those from the ridges and islands north of New Zealand (56 species) and a lessor relationship with the Hawaiian Island fauna (24 species). Other regions in the central Pacific are too poorly know for comparison. Beyond the tropical central Pacific, the Vanuatu/Wallis and Futuna fauna is part of the larger Indo-Polynesian province, sharing 95 (71%) of its species with the tropical western Pacific and 62 species (46%) with the Indian Ocean. Only seven species are found in common with the tropical eastern Pacific and 11 with the Atlantic Ocean. Finally, 43 species from the Vanuatu/Wallis and Futuna Archipelagos are also known from temperate Japan (exclusive of the Ryukyu Islands) and 32 from temperate New Zealand and southern Australia.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 1,056 records.
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Cairns, S.D. 1999. Cnidaria Anthozoa: Deep-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia from Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. Southwestern OBIS, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, New Zealand, 1056 records, Online http://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource.do?r=cairns1999corals released on May 2, 2015.
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GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 1133cad4-e60c-4d60-8c01-fccd29a5d384. Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
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Geographic Coverage
Vanuatu/Wallis and Futuna Island Archipelagos and tropical central Pacific
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-41.05, -156.058], North East [32.417, 120.23] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Cnidaria Anthozoa: Deep-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia
| Order | Scleractinia |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 0029-06-13 / 0017-04-17 |
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Bibliographic Citations
- Cairns, S.D. 1999. Cnidaria Anthozoa: Deep-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia from Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. In: A. Crosnier (ed.)Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Vol 20. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 180: 31-167. Paris ISBN 2-85653-520-8
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Alternative Identifiers | 1133cad4-e60c-4d60-8c01-fccd29a5d384 |
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| https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=cairns1999corals |