Dataset

Antipatharians of the NE Atlantic Margin

OBIS UK Open in mapper Explore occurrences

This dataset contains annotations of black corals (Hexacorallia:Antipatharia) observed in the ROV videos recorded during the RV Celtic Explorer surveys: CE13008, CE14009, CE16006, CE17008, CE18012, CE21010, CE23010. Annotations have been recorded in VARS and morphospecies names have been attributed according to an in-house guide. 

Citation: Parimbelli, A., Laguionie-Marchais, C., Cross, E., Keeney, C., McLoughlin, A. K., Rizzi, A., Allcock, A. L. 2025. Antipatharians of the NE Atlantic Margin

Published: July 15, 2025 at 15:43

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

URL: https://www.dassh.ac.uk/ipt/resource?r=antipatharianeatlantic

Contacts:

Alexa Parimbelli
University of Galway

Claire Laguionie-Marchais

A. Louise Allcock

Eleanor Cross
University of Plymouth

Charlie Keeney
University of Plymouth

Aisling K. McLoughlin

Alessia Rizzi

10,106
occurrence records
21
taxa
5
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 10,106
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 10,106
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 10,106
100.0%
occurrenceStatus 10,106
100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 10,106
100.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data