Biological Results of The Chatham Islands 1954 Expedition. Marine Mollusca & Sipunculids

Occurrence Observation
Latest version published by Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node on Aug 29, 2026 Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node
Publication date:
29 August 2026
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CC0 1.0

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Description

The Chatham Islands 1954 Expedition was organised and led by Prof. G. A. Knox of the Zoology Department of Canterbury University. The expedition was planned to explore the distribution of benthic and pelagic animals between the New Zealand coast and the Chatham Islands over the Chatham Rise, and to investigate the faunal affinities of the Chatham group, which lies in the Sub-tropical Convergence zone.Occurrences of Marine Mollusca and Sipunculoidea are listed in this dataset.

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Dell R K, Edmonds S J, Brodie J W (2026). Biological Results of The Chatham Islands 1954 Expedition. Marine Mollusca & Sipunculids. Version 1.0. Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node. Occurrence dataset. https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=obisschema_chatham_mollusca&v=1.0

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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.

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This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 8cb9c334-01db-4afc-a316-5b4b546080e3.  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

R. K. Dell
  • Originator
Dominion Museum
Wellington
NZ
S. J. Edmonds
  • Originator
Department of Zoology, University of Adelaide
Adelaide
AU
J. W. Brodie
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Point Of Contact
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute
Wellington
NZ

Geographic Coverage

Waters around the Chatham Islands, New Zealand

Bounding Coordinates South West [-47.219, -175.308], North East [-34.426, 167.568]

Taxonomic Coverage

Marine mollusca and Sipuncula

Phylum Mollusca
Order Sipuncula

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Dell, R.K. (1960). Chatham Island marine mollusca based upon the collections of the Chatham Islands expedition, 1954, in: Biological results of the Chatham Islands 1954 expedition: Part 4. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir, 7: pp. 141-157
  2. Edmonds, S.J. (1960). Sipunculids from New Zealand and the Chatham Islands, in: Biological results of the Chatham Islands 1954 expedition: Part 4. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir, 7: pp. 159-167 + 3 Pl.

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS