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NOAA Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program (DSCRTP)

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Shearwater, July 2009

  • Dataset ID: NOAA_SW-09-07
  • Database Version: 20251001-0
  • Data Provider: NOAA, Southwest Fisheries Science Center
  • Data Contact: Yoklavich, Mary:

Locator Map

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: 40.84379
  • Maximum Latitude: 41.87071
  • Minimum Longitude: -124.41102
  • Maximum Longitude: -124.14983

Overview

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

  • Number of records: 450
  • Number of coral records: 405
  • Number of sponge records: 45
  • Records with images: 0
  • Record type(s): video observation
  • Minimum depth (meters): 19
  • Maximum depth (meters): 101
  • Number of records flagged as <50 meters depth: 153
  • Time frame: 2009 to 2009

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, July 2009 and was provided by Yoklavich, Mary: . 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 2009-2009 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

Data Set Level Citation

NOAA, Southwest Fisheries Science Center. Observation date range: 2009 to 2009. 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-09-07. Database version: 20251001-0.

Note: Individual records within a data set may have additional citations in the ‘Citation’ field.

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: 405

Taxon rank Percent of all
coral records
class 13 %
order 64 %
genus 2 %
species 0 %
NA 21 %

Sponges

Number of sponge records: 45

Taxon rank Percent of all
sponge records
phylum 67 %
family 27 %
species 7 %

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
Octocorallia 1341 NA NA 54
Pennatuloidea 1609360 Scleralcyonacea NA 84
Ptilosarcus 267795 Scleralcyonacea Pennatulidae 7
Scleractinia 1363 Scleractinia NA 259
Stylaster californicus 285860 Anthoathecata Stylasteridae 1

Sponge Taxa Observed

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

ScientificName AphiaID Order Family Records
Craniella arb 171324 Tetractinellida Tetillidae 3
Porifera 558 NA NA 30
Tethyidae 131677 Tethyida Tethyidae 12

Fish Taxa Observed

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

## No fish records in this data set.

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