Descrição
This dataset records the occurrence records of the nudibranch Hexabranchus sanguineus collected for the paper "Habitat, food and reproductive activity of the nudibranch Hexabranchus-sanguineus on Tongatapu island" by Francis, 1980.
The taxonomy of the genus Hexabranchus Ehrenberg,1831 is confused and requires revision. More than 20 species have been described (see Thompson, 1972), many of them based primarily on differences in colour pattern. Some authors (Bergh, 1900; Eliot, 1904; Thompson, 1972) consider the many named species to be merely colour varieties of Hexabranchus sanguineus (Riippell & Leuckart, 1828). The validity of the use of colour pattern as a taxonomic character remains to be demonstrated in this genus. Nevertheless, a full description of the colour pattern of Tongan Hexabranchus is given below to facilitate comparative studies in the event that colour does prove to be distinctive. External and internal morphology appear to vary little among the described varieties (Eliot, 1904) but these features were not investigated in Tongan animals.
In the absence of any distinctive taxonomic characters, Tongan Hexabranchus are here referred to the type species of the genus, H. sanguineus (Riippell & Leuckart). Other described "species" will here be considered simply as colour variations of H. sanguineus.
Registros de Dados
Os dados deste recurso de ocorrência foram publicados como um Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), que é o formato padronizado para compartilhamento de dados de biodiversidade como um conjunto de uma ou mais tabelas de dados. A tabela de dados do núcleo contém 9 registros.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versões
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Como citar
Pesquisadores deveriam citar esta obra da seguinte maneira:
Francis M (2022): Records of the nudibranch Hexabranchus sanguineus on Tongatapu island, Tonga. v1.0. Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node. Dataset/Occurrence. https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=hexabranchus_sanguineus_tonga&v=1.0
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O editor e o detentor dos direitos deste trabalho é Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
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Palavras-chave
Occurrence; Observation
Contatos
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Cobertura Geográfica
Tongatapu, Tonga
| Coordenadas delimitadoras | Sul Oeste [-21,27, -175,347], Norte Leste [-21,13, -175,145] |
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Cobertura Taxonômica
Nenhuma descrição disponível
| Espécie | Hexabranchus sanguineus |
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Cobertura Temporal
| Data Inicial / Data final | 1976-03-18 / 1976-11-30 |
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Citações bibliográficas
- Francis, M. 1980. Habitat, food and reproductive activity of the nudibranch Hexabranchus-sanguineus on Tongatapu island. The Veliger, Vol. 22, Berkeley, CA, California Malacozoological Society, pp. 252-258.
Metadados Adicionais
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Identificadores alternativos | https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=hexabranchus_sanguineus_tonga |
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