Dataset

Asteroids from French subantarctic islands: records from the Marion Dufresne MD03 expeditions

Antarctic OBIS Open in mapper Explore occurrences

This dataset is a digital version of the species and stations lists of seastars (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) collected during the Marion Dufresne MD03 expedition in the Kerguelen islands.

Citation: Danis B, Jangoux M, 2008. Sea stars from the Marion Dufresne MD03 expedition in Kerguelen islands. Contribution to the SCAR-Marine Biodiversity Information Network.

Published: March 28, 2023 at 11:17

URL: https://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource?r=seastars_kerguelen

Wim Decock
Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility (ANTABIF)

Anton Van de Putte
Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility (ANTABIF)

Bruno Danis
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences; Departement Educatie en Natuur; Afdeling Zoetwaterbiologie

885
occurrence records
58
taxa
52
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 885
100.0%
decimalLatitude 1
0.1%
decimalLongitude 1
0.1%
eventDate 432
48.8%
maximumDepthInMeters 516
58.3%
minimumDepthInMeters 2
0.2%
scientificNameID 33
3.7%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 263
29.7%
NO_MATCH 33
3.7%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 11
1.2%
NO_COORD 2
0.2%
ON_LAND 1
0.1%

Measurement types

DNA derived data