Cnidaria Anthozoa: Azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the Philippine and Indonesian regions

Occurrence
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Description

Species of azooxanthellate Scleractinaia are listed from the Philippine-Indonesian region. The specimens originate primarily from the MUSORSTUM 1-3 and KARUBAR expeditions, but also include specimens collected by the "Albatross", Danish Expedition to the Kei Islands, SNELLIUS 2 Expedition, "Galathea", Mortensen's Java-South Africa Expedition, "Hakuho Maru", "Siboga", CORINDON 2, and ESTASE 2 expeditions.

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Cairns, S.D., and Zibrowius, H. (2015). Cnidaria Anthozoa: Azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the Philippine and Indonesian regions. Southwestern Pacific OBIS, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, New Zealand, 1396 records, Online http://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource.do?r=cairns1997corals released on May 1, 2015.

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GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: f0a30229-2026-41ad-93e8-9415ed8efdbf.  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

Contacts

Kevin Mackay
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Marine Database Manager
NIWA
  • Private Bag 14-901
6241 Wellington
NZ
Stephen Cairns
  • Point Of Contact
  • Principal Investigator
National Museum of Natural History
  • NHB-163, W-329
20560 Washington DC
US
Helmut Zibrowius
  • Author
  • Author
Station Marine d'Endoume
  • Rue de la Batterie des Lions
13007 Marseille
FR

Geographic Coverage

Philippine and Indonesian regions of the western Pacific Ocean

Bounding Coordinates South West [-31.87, -178.25], North East [32.24, 109.24]

Taxonomic Coverage

Cnidaria Anthozoa

Order Scleractinia

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1874-03-10 / 1993-06-25

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Cairns, S.D., and Zibrowius, H., 1997. Cnidaria Anthozoa: Azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the Philippine and Indonesian regions. Mem. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. 172: 27-243, including 29 pls. (=MUSORSTOM Rep. 16)

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Alternative Identifiers f0a30229-2026-41ad-93e8-9415ed8efdbf
https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=cairns1997corals