Old and Unreported Collections of Alpheid Shrimp from the Zoologisches Museum, Berlin, Principally from Melanesia

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Description

The dataset comes from a report on which previously unstudied collections of 70 species of alpheid shrimp held by the Zoologisches Museum (at the time of publication, East Berlin) are reported upon. Except for four species from the west coast of the Americas, all specimens were from the Indo-Pacific faunal realm, and principally came from the area of the Pacific south of the equator and west of the International Date Line known as Melanesia (exclusive of the Fiji Archipelago), with 46 species from this area. All of the German specimens were collected before 1914, but we have supplemented the records with six additional collections from Melanesia.During the time of this collection, between 1884 and 1919, the Zoological Museum played a central role in the collection and processing of natural history specimens from the German colonies. It organised expeditions and provided colonial officials and military personnel in Africa, the Pacific and China with guidelines and materials for collecting specimens. Natural history collecting served not only to scientifically document biodiversity, but was also frequently linked to economic and political interests.

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 142 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). Old and Unreported Collections of Alpheid Shrimp from the Zoologisches Museum, Berlin, Principally from Melanesia. Version 1.0. Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node. Occurrence dataset. https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=obisschema_alpheid_zm&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: d28bc387-0cbd-4349-ab90-6126fdae9940. 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

Albert H. Banner

Metadata Provider ●
Originator ●
Point Of Contact

Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology

Honolulu

Dora M. Banner

Originator

Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology

Honolulu

Geographic Coverage

Indo-Pacific region

Bounding Coordinates	South West [-38.07, -89.835], North East [35.08, 33.85]

Taxonomic Coverage

Alpheid shrimps

Family	Alpheidae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date	1869-09-05 / 1982-07-18

Bibliographic Citations

Banner, A.H. and Banner, D.M., 1984. Old and unreported collections of alpheid shrimp from the Zoologisches Museum, Berlin, principally from Melanesia.

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Purpose