Contributions to the knowledge of the alpheid shrimp of the Pacific Ocean. Collections from the Phoenix and Line Islands

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Description

This dataset comes from a series of collections made by Albert H. Banner in 1954 made under the auspices of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. In 1954 the senior author received a travel grant from the Bernice P. Bishop Museum and Yale University that permitted him to collect alpheids from wide areas in the central Pacific. The grant was made as part of the tri-institution program (TRIPP) of those two institutions and the University of Hawaii for the increase of scientific knowledge of the Pacific; it deals with those shrimps collected in the Phoenix and Line Islands.While collecting under the grant the Phoenix and Line Islands were visited. In each group of islands the marine environment was sampled as thoroughly as possible with windward and lee reefs, lagoon, and ocean habitats being examined. Wherever possible a rough transect was taken across the reef to the depths that could be reached by effective skin diving. Often, however, difficulties in transportation interfered with the collecting scheme. Moreover, strong winds and surf at times rendered collecting on the outer side of the ocean reef too dangerous. This occurred, for example, at Kantonin the Phoenix Archipelago.

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 140 records.

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.

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Banner A H, Banner D M (2026). Contributions to the knowledge of the alpheid shrimp of the Pacific Ocean. Collections from the Phoenix and Line Islands. Version 1.0. Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node. Occurrence dataset. https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=iobisschema_alpheid_phoenix&v=1.0

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: 4febb479-6fb4-46ce-992d-3af3f32ec81d. 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

Albert H. Banner

Metadata Provider ●
Originator ●
Point Of Contact

Department of Zoology and Entomology. University of Hawaii

Honolulu

Dora May Banner

Originator

Department of Zoology and Entomology. University of Hawaii

Honolulu

Geographic Coverage

Phoenix and Line Islands

Bounding Coordinates	South West [-2.832, -157.48], North East [19.296, 166.625]

Taxonomic Coverage

Alpheid shrimp

Family	Alpheidae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date	1954-02-27 / 1959-12-31

Bibliographic Citations

Banner, A.H. and Banner, D.M., 1964. Contributions to the knowledge of the alpheid shrimp of the Pacific Ocean, IX. Collections from the Phoenix and Line Islands.

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Acknowledgements