Biological Results of The Chatham Islands 1954 Expedition: Decapod Brachyura; Cumacea; Decapoda Natantia

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Description

The Chatham Islands 1954 Expedition was organised and led by Prof. G. A. Knox of the Zoology Department of Canterbury University. The expedition was planned to explore the distribution of benthic and pelagic animals between the New Zealand coast and the Chatham Islands over the Chatham Rise, and to investigate the faunal affinities of the Chatham group, which lies in the Sub-tropical Convergence zone.Occurrences from three faunal groups are listed in this dataset: the crabs (Decapoda, Brachyura) as described by R. K. Dell; Cumacea as described by N. S. Jones; and Crustacea Decapoda Natantia as described by J. C. Yaldwyn.

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 114 records.

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Dell R K, Jones N S, Yaldwyn J C (2026). Biological Results of The Chatham Islands 1954 Expedition: Decapod Brachyura; Cumacea; Decapoda Natantia. Version 1.1. Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node. Occurrence dataset. https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=chatham_bracyura&v=1.1

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node. 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.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 997e2d6a-9c29-42a0-8cb6-fec51da8842d. 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; Observation

Contacts

R. K. Dell

Metadata Provider ●
Originator

Dominion Museum

Wellington

N. S. Jones

Originator

Marine Biological Station

Port Erin

J. C. Yaldwyn

Originator

Dominion Museum

6022 Wellington

J. W. Brodie

Point Of Contact

New Zealand Oceanographic Institute

Wellington

Geographic Coverage

Waters around the Chatham Islands, New Zealand

Bounding Coordinates	South West [-44.592, -175.308], North East [-42.865, 175.442]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Infraorder	Brachyura (Crabs)

No Description available

Order	Cumacea

No Description available

Suborder	Natantia

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date	1954-01-23 / 1954-02-11

Bibliographic Citations

Dell, R.K., 1960. Biological results of the Chatham Islands 1954 Expedition. DSIR Bull. 139 (4).

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Alternative Identifiers	997e2d6a-9c29-42a0-8cb6-fec51da8842d
	https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=chatham_bracyura