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SOMBASE – Southern Ocean mollusc database: a tool for biogeographic analysis in diversity and evolution

Version 1.2 published by British Antarctic Survey on Feb 9, 2018 British Antarctic Survey

Databases and Geographical Information Systems are becoming increasingly popular tools for biogeographic analysis. The reliability of the analysis depends on the accuracy of the entered data and the ability to add changes in systematics and taxonomy. The main aim of the Southern Ocean Mollusc Database (SOMBASE) project is to set up a database linked with a GIS and user-friendly front end. This system allows for the inclusion of other taxa in the future. Currently the database consists of records for 950 shelled gastropod and 136 bivalve species and 2800 sites from the Southern Ocean.The database contains fields including: 1) Taxonomic authorship, synonyms, higher level classifications, diagnostic morphological characters, and ecological features; 2) Distributional information including substrate and depth; 3) Bibliographic information.The maps can display selected sites based on any query of any field or combination of fields in the database. An online version of the database is available with distribution maps for all taxonomic levels (www.antarctica.ac.uk/SOMBASE). SOMBASE is a contribution to the Biogeiegraphic Atlas of the Southern Ocean

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is British Antarctic Survey. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 2952a69a-c159-4e83-849f-738428d5cea6.  British Antarctic Survey publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by National Biodiversity Network.

Keywords

Occurrence; Southern Ocean; Antarctica; Polar; Mollusks; Bivalves; Gastropods; ANTARCTIC; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIVALVIA; DATABASE; ECOLOGY; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSC; SOUTHERN OCEAN; DISTRIBUTION; TAXONOMY

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Huw J Griffiths
Investigator
British Antarctic Survey Cambridge GB
Katrin Linse
Investigator
British Antarctic Survey Cambridge GB
J.Alistair Crame
Investigator
British Antarctic Survey Cambridge GB

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Huw J Griffiths
Investigator
British Antarctic Survey Cambridge GB

Who filled in the metadata:

Anton Van de Putte

Who else was associated with the resource:

User
Anton Van de Putte

Geographic Coverage

Southern Ocean

Bounding Coordinates South West [-80, -180], North East [13, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Class  Bivalvia,  Gastropoda,  Scaphopoda

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Alternative Identifiers http://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource?r=sombase_southern_ocean_mollusc_database