We’re sorry, but GBIF doesn’t work properly without JavaScript enabled.
Our website has detected that you are using an outdated insecure browser that will prevent you from using the site. We suggest you upgrade to a modern browser.
{{nav.loginGreeting}}
  • Get data
      • Occurrences
      • GBIF API
      • Species
      • Datasets
      • Occurrence snapshots
      • Hosted portals
      • Trends
  • How-to
    • Share data

      • Quick-start guide
      • Dataset classes
      • Data hosting
      • Standards
      • Become a publisher
      • Data quality
      • Data papers
    • Use data

      • Featured data use
      • Citation guidelines
      • GBIF citations
      • Citation widget
  • Tools
    • Publishing

      • IPT
      • Data validator
      • Scientific Collections
      • Suggest a dataset
      • New data model ⭐️
    • Data access and use

      • Hosted portals
      • Data processing
      • Derived datasets
      • rgbif
      • pygbif
      • MAXENT
      • Tools catalogue
    • GBIF labs

      • Species matching
      • Name parser
      • Sequence ID
      • Relative observation trends
      • GBIF data blog
  • Community
    • Network

      • Participant network
      • Nodes
      • Publishers
      • Network contacts
      • Community forum
      • alliance for biodiversity knowledge
    • Volunteers

      • Mentors
      • Ambassadors
      • Translators
      • Citizen scientists
    • Activities

      • Capacity enhancement
      • Programmes & projects
      • Training and learning resources
      • Data Use Club
      • Living Atlases
  • About
    • Inside GBIF

      • What is GBIF?
      • Become a member
      • Governance
      • Implementation plan
      • Work Programme
      • Funders
      • Partnerships
      • Release notes
      • Contacts
    • News & outreach

      • News
      • Newsletters and lists
      • Events
      • Awards
      • Science Review
      • Data use
  • User profile

Eels and Eel-larvae of the Tui Oceanographic Cruise 1962, to the South Fiji Basin

Citation

Castle P (2021). Eels and Eel-larvae of the Tui Oceanographic Cruise 1962, to the South Fiji Basin. Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/2m6e95 accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-08.

Description

During July and early August, 1962, the H.M.N.Z.F.A. Tui undertook a deep-water research cruise in a broadly triangular area bounded by Auckland, Norfolk Island and the Kermadec Islands, an area which includes the southern half of the South Fiji Basin. As part of the biological programme of this cruise, trawls were made in midwater depths of yup to about 1,1000m with a 10ft Isaacs-Kidd trawl as well as on the surface and on the bottom with other gear. Collections were made with dipnets and handlines. In the large and diverse collection of fishes which resulted were some 43 eels and eel-larvae, the largest collection made in New Zealand waters up to that date. Of these 43 specimens, 29 adult or young eels referable to six genera and seven species and the remainder are leptocephali referable to nine genera and nine species. This dataset reports on the eels and eel-larvae of the Tui cruise.

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

  1. Anguilliformes
    common name: Eels rank: order

Geographic Coverages

South Fiji Basin, north of New Zealand

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Castle, P.H.J. 1964. Eels and Eel-larvae of the Tui Oceanographic Cruise 1962, to the South Fiji Basin. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand: Zoology, Vol. 5, Issue 7 -

Contacts

P.H.J. Castle
originator
position: Marine Biologist
Department of Zoology, Victoria University
Wellington
NC
P.H.J. Castle
metadata author
position: Marine Biologist
Department of Zoology, Victoria University
Wellington
NC
Kevin Mackay
user
email: kevin.mackay@niwa.co.nz
P.H.J. Castle
administrative point of contact
position: Marine Biologist
Department of Zoology, Victoria University
Wellington
NC
What is GBIF? API FAQ Newsletter Privacy Terms and agreements Citation Code of Conduct Acknowledgements
Contact GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark
GBIF is a Global Core Biodata Resource