NIWA Invertebrate Collection

Sadie Mills1, Kevin Mackay1, Diana Macpherson1

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

Corresponding author(s): Sadie Mills (invertebratecollection@niwa.co.nz), 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

NIWA (2018): NIWA Invertebrate Collection. v1.1. The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). Dataset/Occurrence. https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=obisspecify&amp;v=1.1

Abstract

The NIWA Invertebrate Collection (NIC) holds specimens from almost all invertebrate phyla. This is a result of about half a century of marine taxonomic and biodiversity research in the New Zealand region, the South West Pacific and the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
New Zealand lies in the South West Pacific, a region that harbours one of the world’s highest species diversity in some marine invertebrate groups with a high proportion of endemic species (that don't occur anywhere else). This huge diversity is, amongst other things, related to the variable seafloor relief and New Zealand’s ancient geological history. NIWA is fortunate to hold a significant representation of New Zealand’s marine biodiversity in the NIWA Invertebrate Collection at Greta Point in Wellington.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

General description

Additional information: marine, harvested by iOBIS

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

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: New Zealand region and the Ross Sea, Antarctica
Coordinates: 78°0'0''S and 24°0'0''S Latitude; 157°0'0''E and 160°0'0''W Longitude 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive NIWA Invertebrate Collection
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/archive.do?r=obisspecify
Publication date of data: 2019-01-03
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-12-21
Hierarchy level: Dataset