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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Dataset ID: LACoMNH
Database Version: 20251001-0
Data Provider: Horvath 2019
Data Contact: Horvath, Elizabeth Anne (horvath@westmont.edu)

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Geographic Range

Ocean: North Pacific
Fishery Management Council Region(s): Pacific
Large Marine Ecosystem(s): California Current
Marine Ecoregion(s): Oregon, Washington, Vancouver Coast and Shelf

Bounding box

Coordinates are in WGS 84: EPSG:4326

Minimum Latitude: 46.10611
Maximum Latitude: 46.10611
Minimum Longitude: -124.9175
Maximum Longitude: -124.9175

Overview

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

Number of records: 1
Number of coral records: 1
Number of sponge records: 0
Records with images: 0
Record type(s): specimen
Minimum depth (meters): 1,123
Maximum depth (meters): 1,123
Number of records flagged as <50 meters depth: 0
Time frame: 2001 to 2001

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 corals from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Changes to the original dataset may have been made to conform to the National Database Schema and for quality control purposes. For additional information on the marine invertebrate collection of the Museum see: https://nhm.org/research-collections/digitized-collections

Collection methodogy details:

Specimens were collected using a variety of methods and gears.
Link: https://nhm.org/research-collections/digitized-collections

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Data Set Level Citation

Horvath 2019. Observation date range: 2001 to 2001. Coral or sponge occurrence observations submitted to the NOAA National Database for Deep Sea Corals and Sponges (www.deepseacoraldata.noaa.gov). DSCRTP Dataset ID: LACoMNH. 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: 1

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
Sibogagorgia californica	1647390	Scleralcyonacea	Coralliidae	1

Sponge Taxa Observed

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

## 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.