Marine Infauna. ORI

Occurrence
Latest version published by South African National Biodiversity Institute on Dec 4, 2025 South African National Biodiversity Institute
Publication date:
4 December 2025
License:
CC-BY-NC 4.0

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Description

3500 benthic marine invertebrate records from soft sediment infauna studies on the KwaZulu-Natal shelf in South Africa, collected via ship-based grab sampling.

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 3,500 records.

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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is South African National Biodiversity Institute. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

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Occurrence

Contacts

Fiona MacKay
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Senior Scientist
Oceanographic Research Institute
1 King Shaka Avenue, Point
4001 Durban
KwaZulu Natal
ZA
031 328 8172
Khanya Ntondini

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