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Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection Marine Invertebrates

Entry ID: TCWC_Cnidaria

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Summary

Abstract: The Collection of Marine Invertebrates at the Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection consists of over 47,000 dry and fluid-preserved marine invertebrates primarily from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. The majority of the specimens were collected by Research Vessels Alaminos and Gyre during the 1960's and 1970's. The collection remains the most comprehensive collection of deep-sea ...

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Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

	N: 41.53	S: -17.77	E: 55.31	W: -126.0

Min Depth: 0 Max Depth: 4526

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences

Dataset Title: Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection Marine Invertebrates

Dataset Release Date: 2011

Dataset Release Place: Texas A&M University. Retrieve from http://obisusa.nbii.gov.

Dataset Publisher: Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences

Data Presentation Form: database

Online Resource: http://www.usgs.gov/obis-usa

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1946-02-16

Stop Date: 2010-04-02

Location Keywords

OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA

OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO

OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA > VIRGIN ISLANDS

OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN

Science Keywords

OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > GYRES

BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > CNIDARIANS

ISO Topic Category

BIOTA

OCEANS

Quality ATTRIBUTE ACCURACY REPORT: The data has been used for many years and has had quality checks.

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OBIS-USA renders information prepared by contributors accessible through dynamic on-line publication. It does not peer-review the quality of the data provided. However, it is confident that the data are the ...

Use Constraints Prior to use of these records in any analysis or report, Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection must be notified and if used the provenance of the original data must be acknowledged. Acknowledge the use of specific records from contributing TCWC databases and acknowledge the use of the OBIS-USA facility. Recognize the limitations of data in OBIS-USA.

Ancillary Keywords

Alaminos

Gyre