Contributions to the knowledge of the alpheid Shrimp of the Pacific Ocean: Collections from Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa.

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Description

This dataset comes from a series of collections made by Albert H. Banner in 1954 while on a Yale University-University of Hawaii-Bishop Museum Grant; it deals with those shrimps collected in the Fiji, Tonga , and Samoa archipelagoes.The original paper describing this collection was prepared in final form in December 1961, complete with plates, maps, locality records, etc., but it was destroyed in the fire at the Hawaii Marine Laboratory. Lost also in the fire were the specimens in .the collection and the field notes. The sections of the paper dealing with Fiji, Tonga, and Western Samoa were salvaged in part from the partially burned original study notes and in part from the first draft of the text: for American Samoa we were able to make another collection which partially replaced the lost collection. Certain ambiguities in the preliminary notes could not be resolved for this final completed paper by reference to the original specimens, as is normally done.

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 565 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 Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa.. Version 1.1. Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node. Occurrence dataset. https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=obisschema_alpheid_pacific&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: f815ef36-510e-4df3-a3b3-11deb87d6ccf. 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

Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology

Honolulu

Hawaii

Dora M. Banner

Originator

Department of Zoology and Entomology. University of Hawaii

Honolulu

Hawaii

Geographic Coverage

South Pacific Ocean

Bounding Coordinates	South West [-21.198, -170.567], North East [-13.808, 177.72]

Taxonomic Coverage

Alpheid shrimps

Family	Alpheidae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date	1954-03-11 / 1954-09-01

Bibliographic Citations

Banner, A.H. and Banner, D.M., 1966. Contributions to the knowledge of the alpheid Shrimp of the Pacific Ocean: Part X. Collections from Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa.

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Acknowledgements
Alternative Identifiers	f815ef36-510e-4df3-a3b3-11deb87d6ccf
	https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=obisschema_alpheid_pacific