Description
This dataset includes information on sea stars collected during one of the Walter Herwig expeditions (1978). Sampling took place during the FFS (Fischereiforschungsschiff) voyage. The expedition focused on the continental shelf of Patagonia, down to the Falklands (Malvinas) Islands. The asteroids of the Walter Herwig FFS expedition have been identified in detail, based on the observation of external morphological characters using a binocular microscope. A wide variety of morphological characters was taken into consideration for the identification of the asteroids. For instance, shape and size of the pedicellaria, the skeletal structure (réseau squelettique) and the ossicles that form the mesh (number of spines/ossicle), thickness and aspect of the body wall, the position of the papula, the number of podia rows and the shape of the podia, structure and armature of the marginal plates, number and form of the adambulacral spines as well as the spines of the dental plates, etc. By means of a preexisting identification key of Atlantic asteroids (A.M. Clark, 1994), the observation of the morphological characters permitted to identify the order, the family, the genus and sometimes the species to which the considered individual belonged to. For the time being, there are no existing identification keys for Antarctic asteroids. For this reason, we consulted in addition multiple works of previous Antarctic expeditions (A.M. Clark (1962, 1994), R. Köhler (1906, 1907, 1908, 1911, 1912, 1917, 1920, 1923), W.K. Fisher (1911,1940), Sladen (1889), Mortensen (1932), E. Perrier (1891a), H. Ludwig (1905), Th. Studer (1874), I. Bernasconi (1967, 1964, 1966, 1972), Madsen (1950)) which allowed us to improve the identifications in dubious cases, thanks of their numerous detailed illustrations and descriptions of Antarctic asteroids. Synonymy was resolved by consulting the Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS), that is accessible via internet and that compiles the most recent information about Antarctic asteroid taxonomy (Danis & Jangoux, 2007), delivering us in this way the valid species names.
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 795 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:
Danis B, Wilmes J, Jangoux M, 2008. Sea stars from the Walter Herwig FFS expedition. Contribution to the SCAR-Marine Biodiversity Information Network.
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is SCAR - AntOBIS. 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: 95d1abe6-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a. SCAR - AntOBIS publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Asteroids; Distribution; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| Online dataset | http://www.iobis.org/mapper/?dataset=566 US-ASCII Plain Text |
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| Metadata | http://www.vliz.be/imis/imis.php?module=dataset&dasid=1653 UTF-8 XML |
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Geographic Coverage
PS, Southern Ocean
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-67.9, -54.863], North East [-55.643, -0.937] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123080
| Class | Asteroidea [Starfish] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date | 1978-01-01 |
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Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Alternative Identifiers | 95d1abe6-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a |
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| https://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource?r=waltererwig_asteroida |