Jasus caverum (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palinuridae) from the eastern South Pacific Ocean

Occurrence
Latest version published by Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node on Aug 8, 2018 Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node

Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:

Data as a DwC-A file download 30 records in English (5 KB) - Update frequency: not planned
Metadata as an EML file download in English (7 KB)
Metadata as an RTF file download in English (8 KB)

Description

A new species of rock lobster, Jasus caveorum, is described from commercial catches taken on a non-emergent seamount in the eastern South Pacific Ocean. The species best fits the "frontalis subgroup" of the "lalandii group" of Jasus lobsters. J. caveorum is most similar to J. frontalis from the eastern South Pacific, but differs clearly from that species in having very little abdominal "squamous" sculpturing.

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 30 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

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

W. R. Webber & J. D. Booth (2016) Data from: A new species of Jasus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palinuridae) from the eastern South Pacific Ocean, Southwestern Pacific OBIS, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, New Zealand, 30 records, Online http://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource.do?r=jcaveorum released on June 7, 2016.

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 4bac4236-64a0-4aa9-b7c9-9b1658ffaa84.  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

Webber Webber
  • Originator
Kevin Mackay
  • Metadata Provider
  • Marine Database Manager
NIWA
  • Private Bag 14-901
6241 Kilbirnie
Wellington
NZ
Webber
  • Point Of Contact
J.D. Booth
  • Author
  • Researcher
NIWA
  • Private Bag 14-901
6241 Kilbirnie
Wellington
NZ

Geographic Coverage

Foundation Seamount chain

Bounding Coordinates South West [-35, 120], North East [-35, 120]

Sampling Methods

About 12 000 specimens of this new species were taken in commercial baited traps. Traps were set on a single seamount with two peaks at 140 m depth with a 320 m deep trough between. The tops of the seamount were fished down to 300 m. Lobsters were taken from 140 to 180 m, mostly at 140 to 150 m. Males predominated in the catches; few females, ovigerous or otherwise, were taken and no ovigerous females were retained. Southern Seafoods Ltd, owners of the FV David Baker, supplied us with 14 males and the abdomens of 27 females and 18 males, all frozen, and facilitated our examination of a further 177 abdomens before the abdomens were packed for sale.

Study Extent Non-emergent seamounts on the Foundation seamount chain

Method step description:

  1. Measurements taken include carapace length (CL), from the front of the antennal platform (where the basal segments of the antennal peduncles meet in the midline) to the posterior median margin of the carapace; abdomen length (AL), from the anterior, median margin of the first abdominal tergum to the posterior median margin of the telson with the abdomen held straight on a flat surface

Bibliographic Citations

  1. W. R. Webber & J. D. Booth (1995) A new species of Jasus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palinuridae) from the eastern South Pacific Ocean, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 29:4, 613-622 DOI: 10.1080/00288330.1995.9516692

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Alternative Identifiers 4bac4236-64a0-4aa9-b7c9-9b1658ffaa84
https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=jcaveorum