Name: A report of sea cucumbers collected on the first dedicated deep-sea biological survey of Australia's Indian Ocean Territories around Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) (2021-2022)
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A report of sea cucumbers collected on the first dedicated deep-sea biological survey of Australia's Indian Ocean Territories around Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) (2021-2022)

URL

https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=iot_sea_cucumbers

Repository URL

https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/

Node

OBIS Australia

Published

2025-03-05 09:38

First registered

2025-03-08 22:36

Abstract

The marine benthic biodiversity survey 'Investigating the IOT' took place in the waters of Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands in Australia’s Indian Ocean Territories (IOT) on two voyages over 2021 and 2022. Both voyages on the RV Investigator collected sea cucumbers using a beam trawl from the seamounts and seafloor of the area. A report of sea cucumbers collected is cited and includes taxonomic treatments, shipboard and ossicle images, range extensions, and genetic data for species where available.

The data has been acquired on the following RV Investigator voyage(s)

IN2021_V04

and

IN2022_V08

with links to additional metadata, datasets, events, deployments, publications etc.

If this data has been used in any products, please acknowledge with the following: We acknowledge the use of the CSIRO Marine National Facility (https://ror.org/01mae9353) in undertaking this research.

Citation

Mackenzie M.,Davey N.,Burghardt I.,Haines M. L.,2024. A report of sea cucumbers collected on the first dedicated deep sea benthic survey of Australia's Indian Ocean Territories around Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 83: 207-316. https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2024.83.03

Citation ID

https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2024.83.03

Rights

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License

Keywords

Occurrence, Specimen

Contacts

Creator	Melanie Mackenzie Museums Victoria
Contact	Melanie Mackenzie Museums Victoria
Metadata Provider	Melanie Mackenzie Museums Victoria
Publisher	OBIS Australia Node manager CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre

report issue source DwC-A to mapper

Occurrence records	223
Species level	98
Absence records	0
Event records	0
Species	21
Taxa	38
Time range	2021 - 2022

Dropped records	0
Not marine	0
No WoRMS match	0
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Records on land	0
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	83

Scientific name	Records
Molpadiodemas Heding, 1935 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea	30
Bathyplotes Östergren, 1896 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea	22
Mesothuria gargantua Deichmann, 1930 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea	20
Holothuroidea de Blainville, 1834 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea	18
Orphnurgus insignis Fisher, 1907 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea	17
Benthodytes Théel, 1882 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea	14
Orphnurgus glaber Walsh, 1891 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea	13
Peniagone Théel, 1882 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea	10
Enypniastes eximia Théel, 1882 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea	6
Orphnurgus Théel, 1879 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea	6

A report of sea cucumbers collected on the first dedicated deep-sea biological survey of Australia's Indian Ocean Territories around Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) (2021-2022)

Statistics

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Taxonomic issues

Missing and invalid fields

Spatial issues

Top taxa

Distribution

Records

Composition

Data providers

Occurrences

Name	OceanExpert ID
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	20942
Museums Victoria

Marine unsure	0
No accepted name available	0