Deep-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia from Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands

Kevin Mackay1

1 NIWA, Private Bag 14-901, 6241, Kilbirnie, New Zealand

Corresponding author(s): Kevin Mackay

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Cairns, S.D. 1999. Cnidaria Anthozoa: Deep-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia from Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. Southwestern OBIS, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, New Zealand, 1056 records, Online http://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource.do?r=cairns1999corals released on May 2, 2015.

Abstract

A total of 134 Recent species of azooxanthellate Scleractinia are reported from the Vanuatu (116 species) and Wallis and Futuna (83 species) Archipelagos, all but one being new records for the region of the tropical central Pacific. The newly reported specimens originate primarily from the MUSORSTUM 7 and 8 expeditions, including approximately 4400 specimens from 227 stations, most of these deeper than 100 m.
Within the tropical central Pacific these corals show a strong affinity with those from the ridges and islands north of New Zealand (56 species) and a lessor relationship with the Hawaiian Island fauna (24 species). Other regions in the central Pacific are too poorly know for comparison. Beyond the tropical central Pacific, the Vanuatu/Wallis and Futuna fauna is part of the larger Indo-Polynesian province, sharing 95 (71%) of its species with the tropical western Pacific and 62 species (46%) with the Indian Ocean. Only seven species are found in common with the tropical eastern Pacific and 11 with the Atlantic Ocean. Finally, 43 species from the Vanuatu/Wallis and Futuna Archipelagos are also known from temperate Japan (exclusive of the Ryukyu Islands) and 32 from temperate New Zealand and southern Australia.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

General description

Additional information: marine, harvested by iOBIS

Data published through GBIF: https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=cairns1999corals

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Cnidaria Anthozoa: Deep-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia
Taxonomic ranks
Order: Scleractinia

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Vanuatu/Wallis and Futuna Island Archipelagos and tropical central Pacific
Coordinates: 41°2'60''S and 32°25'1.2''N Latitude; 156°3'28.8''W and 120°13'48''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 13 June 0029 - 17 April 0017

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Deep-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia from Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/archive.do?r=cairns1999corals
Publication date of data: 2018-08-08
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2015-05-03
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Cairns, S.D. 1999. Cnidaria Anthozoa: Deep-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia from Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. In: A. Crosnier (ed.)Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Vol 20. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 180: 31-167. Paris ISBN 2-85653-520-8