Specimens collected by Museums Victoria from the Indian Ocean Territories (IOT) on the RV Investigator voyages IN2021_V04 and IN2022_V08, Australia (2021-2022)

The purpose of the two surveys was to characterise the benthic biodiversity from seamounts (100-3500 m) across the EEZ in Australia’s Indian Ocean Territories (IOT) for the first time. Provide specimens and tissues samples to taxonomists for species identification and descriptions and test whether the proposed bioregionalisation for the territories (Brewer et al 2009, derived from environmental data) is an adequate surrogate for patterns of seafloor diversity across a series of depth strata. In addition understand the biogeographical relationships of the fauna through community and evolutionary (DNA) comparisons with other Australian, west Pacific and Indian Ocean faunas. Voyage details (maps, projects, publications and reports, other data, events etc at https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/survey_details.cfm?survey=IN2022_V08 and https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/survey_details.cfm?survey=IN2021_V04 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. Data sourced from Atlas of Living Australia on 2024-08-30 from the Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM (https://collections.ala.org.au/public/showDataResource/dr342) collection

Citation: O'Hara T (2024). Specimens collected by Museums Victoria from the Indian Ocean Territories (IOT) on the RV Investigator voyages IN2021_V04 and IN2022_V08, Australia (2021-2022). Version 1.1. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Occurrence dataset. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=nmv_iot_specimens&v=1.1

Published: September 26, 2024 at 00:39

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