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American Museum of Natural History, Invertebrate Zoology Collection

Dataset ID: AMNH_IZ
Database Version: 20251001-0
Data Provider: American Museum of Natural History
Data Contact: Rodriguez, Estefania: erodriguez@amnh.org

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Geographic Range

Ocean: North Atlantic
Fishery Management Council Region(s): South Atlantic
Large Marine Ecosystem(s): Southeast U.S. Continental Shelf
Marine Ecoregion(s): Bahamian, Carolinian

Bounding box

Coordinates are in WGS 84: EPSG:4326

Minimum Latitude: 27.16667
Maximum Latitude: 31.98333
Minimum Longitude: -79.56667
Maximum Longitude: -79.08333

Overview

Note: The numbers below only reflect published records. Additional records may be retained by the Program for further review.

Number of records: 2
Number of coral records: 2
Number of sponge records: 0
Records with images: 0
Record type(s): specimen
Minimum depth (meters): 413
Maximum depth (meters): 686
Number of records flagged as <50 meters depth: 0
Time frame: 1954 to 1958

Data Set Description: This is a subset of the Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program’s National Database. The data set contains records of deepwater coral specimens in the American Museum of Natural History’s Invetebrate Zoology Collection. The Museum has identified Estefania Rodriguez as the point of contact for this collection. Changes to the original dataset may have been made to conform to the National Database Schema and for quality control purposes. Further information can be found at: https://www.amnh.org/our-research/invertebrate-zoology/collections/cnidaria/dry-coral-collection

Collection methodogy details:

Specimens were collected using a variety of methods and gears.
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Data Set Level Citation

American Museum of Natural History. Observation date range: 1954 to 1958. Coral or sponge occurrence observations submitted to the NOAA National Database for Deep Sea Corals and Sponges (www.deepseacoraldata.noaa.gov). DSCRTP Dataset ID: AMNH_IZ. Database version: 20251001-0.

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Taxonomic Summary

Percent of coral, sponge, and fish records by lowest taxonomic rank.

Corals

Number of coral records: 2

Taxon rank	Percent of all coral records
species	100 %

Sponges

Number of sponge records: 0

## No sponge records in this data set.

Fishes

Number of fish records: 0

## No fish records in this data set.

Coral Taxa Observed

Note: Nothing will appear here if no coral taxa were observed.

ScientificName	AphiaID	Order	Family	Records
Flabellum (Ulocyathus) alabastrum	135194	Scleractinia	Flabellidae	1
Pseudodrifa nigra	290874	Malacalcyonacea	Capnellidae	1

Sponge Taxa Observed

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## No sponge records in this data set.

Fish Taxa Observed

Note: Nothing will appear here if no fish taxa were observed.

## No fish records in this data set.