Description
A total of 1645 marine offshore molluscs species from five classes. 1997
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 17,381 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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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 (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 2326eba5-a469-4887-94a0-d2762fa86177. South African National Biodiversity Institute publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by South African Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence. Marine gastropoda; marine bivalvia; scaphopoda; cephalopoda; polyplacophora. Natal Museum Dredging Programme; benthic molluscs.; Specimen
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Samples collected along the coastline from Cape Columbine on the West Coast to Kosi Bay on the East Coast of South Africa
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-35.6, -26.9], North East [90, 17.4] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Polyplacophora. Marine Snails. Species and subspecies.
| Phylum | Mollusca |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1981-08-11 / 1997-05-06 |
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Sampling Methods
Sampling was by dredge (a modified version of an Agassi style trawl) which were towed approximately 10 min at each station.
| Study Extent | Natal Museum |
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| Quality Control | Identification were done by experts in the field of malacology and subsequent data cleaning occurred in the form of station coordinate verification, nomenclature status using WoRMS, removal of records that were ambiguous. Only occurrences identified to species level or lower were included and duplicate catalogue numbers checked and fixed. Type specimens received special attention to ensure the type status and type numbers are correct. |
Method step description:
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Additional Metadata
Acknowledgement required by KwaZulu-Natal Museum
| Alternative Identifiers | https://ipt.sanbi.org.za/resource?r=mollusc_dredge_records_nmsa_nmdp |
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