Biogeographic distribution of the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic brachiopods (living forms)

doi:10.15468/ein0wp

Biogeographic distribution of the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic brachiopods (living forms)

Citation

SCAR - AntOBIS (2018). Biogeographic distribution of the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic brachiopods (living forms). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ein0wp accessed via GBIF.org on 2018-11-14.

Description

The only Antarctic review about brachiopods has been done by Forster in 1974. Since about 100 publications dealing with living Antarctic brachiopods have been issued and nearly 50 on fossil Antarctic brachiopods, until 2009. The classification of the Brachiopoda has been basically changed in 1996 and developed in the 6 volumes of the “Treatise” (1997-2007). All specialists of living brachiopods are now retired (less than 5!). Consequently, the distributional biodiversity of the extant brachiopods must be stored online as soon a possible. This task will be difficult to be completed in a next future.
For the proposed work all the available publications (about 150) on living brachiopods will be analyzed, as well the citations on living forms included in the palaeontological papers. The dataset holds taxonomic and distribution data on Brachiopoda (lamp-shells) from the Antarctic and Subantarctic regions. The sources of the information (bibliography and expeditions) are also provided.

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1803

Brachiopoda [Lamp shells]
rank: phylum

Geographic Coverages

Antarctica

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Data Manager
originator
Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility (ANTABIF)
email: data.biodiversity.aq@gmail.com
homepage: http://data.biodiversity.aq

Anton Van de Putte
metadata author
position: Project Manager
Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility (ANTABIF)
email: antonarctica@gmail.com
homepage: http://data.biodiversity.aq

Christian Emig
custodian steward
BrachNet
email: brachnet@aliceadsl.fr

Anton Van de Putte
administrative point of contact
position: Project Manager
Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility (ANTABIF)
email: antonarctica@gmail.com
homepage: http://data.biodiversity.aq