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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Shearwater, August 2008

Dataset ID: NOAA_SW-08-08
Database Version: 20251001-0
Data Provider: NOAA, Southwest Fisheries Science Center
Data Contact: Yoklavich, Mary: mary.yoklavich@noaa.gov

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Geographic Range

Ocean: North Pacific
Fishery Management Council Region(s): Pacific
Large Marine Ecosystem(s): California Current
Marine Ecoregion(s): Northern California

Bounding box

Coordinates are in WGS 84: EPSG:4326

Minimum Latitude: 38.03669
Maximum Latitude: 38.59768
Minimum Longitude: -123.38474
Maximum Longitude: -122.96961

Overview

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

Number of records: 759
Number of coral records: 733
Number of sponge records: 26
Records with images: 0
Record type(s): video observation
Minimum depth (meters): 24
Maximum depth (meters): 85
Number of records flagged as <50 meters depth: 226
Time frame: 2008 to 2008

Data Set Description: This is a subset of the Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program’s National Database. The data was acquired for the National Database from the research cruise National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Shearwater, August 2008 and was provided by Yoklavich, Mary: mary.yoklavich@noaa.gov. Changes to the original dataset may have been made to conform to the National Database Schema and for quality control purposes. This is a collection of NOAA, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Santa Cruz records collected by towed camera conducted from 2008-2008 in the California Current. Further information can be found at: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1890/ES11-00295.1

Collection methodogy details:

See link for methods.
Link: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1890/ES11-00295.1

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Data Set Level Citation

NOAA, Southwest Fisheries Science Center. Observation date range: 2008 to 2008. Coral or sponge occurrence observations submitted to the NOAA National Database for Deep Sea Corals and Sponges (www.deepseacoraldata.noaa.gov). Principal investigator: Johnson, S. | Cochrane, G. | Yoklavich, Mary. DSCRTP Dataset ID: NOAA_SW-08-08. Database version: 20251001-0.

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Expedition Details

SurveyID	Vessel	VehicleName	SamplingEquipment	RecordType
California Seafloor Mapping Project	Shearwater R/V \| Coral Sea R/V	USGS towed camera sled	towed camera	video observation

Taxonomic Summary

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

Corals

Number of coral records: 733

Taxon rank	Percent of all coral records
class	0 %
order	59 %
genus	4 %
species	3 %
NA	34 %

Sponges

Number of sponge records: 26

Taxon rank	Percent of all sponge records
phylum	38 %
family	15 %
species	46 %

Fishes

Number of fish records: 0

## No fish records in this data set.

Coral Taxa Observed

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ScientificName	AphiaID	Order	Family	Records
Octocorallia	1341	NA	NA	2
Pennatuloidea	1609360	Scleralcyonacea	NA	252
Ptilosarcus	267795	Scleralcyonacea	Pennatulidae	26
Scleractinia	1363	Scleractinia	NA	434
Stylaster californicus	285860	Anthoathecata	Stylasteridae	19

Sponge Taxa Observed

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ScientificName	AphiaID	Order	Family	Records
Craniella arb	171324	Tetractinellida	Tetillidae	12
Porifera	558	NA	NA	10
Tethyidae	131677	Tethyida	Tethyidae	4

Fish Taxa Observed

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## No fish records in this data set.