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Report on the Danish Oceanographical expeditions 1908-1910 to the Mediterranean and adjacent seas - Pelagic Polychaetes

Citation

Mavraki D, Faulwetter S, Nikolopoulou S, Tsompanou M, Gerovasiliou V, Fanini L, Chatzinikolaou E (2016). Digitization of "Pelagic polychaetes of the families Aphroditidae, Phyllodocidae, Lopadorhynchidae and Alciopidae, Report on the Danish Oceanographical Expedition 1908-10 to the Mediterranean and adjacent seas" by E. Wesenberg-Lund (1939). https://doi.org/10.15468/ikmmup accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-06-13.

Description

The present historical paper deals with the pelagic Polychaetes except the Tomopterids collected on the cruises of the "Thor", 1908-1910 in the Mediterannenan and adjacent waters. The tables included in this report present also the scientific results from other research vessels such as "Dana" (years 1921 and 1930) and "S/S Pangan" (1911).

Sampling Description

Study Extent

Collections are from the Mediterranean and adjacent parts of Atlantic Ocean.

Sampling

The majority of the catches were made with "Petersen's Young-fish Trawl" mostly with a diameter of 200cm and 330cm and stramin nets with dimeters of 100, 150 and 200cm: the fishing parts of these consist of stramin, a coarse canvas with abt 20 threads to 3cm. A few samples containing Polychaeta were taken with other apparatus, viz.5 samples with ring-trawl 130cm, 200cm and 300cm in diameter; 2 samples with open conical silk-net 100cm in diameter ;one with Nansen's closing net, 50 cm in diameter and finally one with rectangular dredge opening 27x117 cm

Quality Control

The dataset was digitized manually from scanned documents. Original names regarding taxonomy and sampling location were kept as a reference. At the same time taxon names were cross-checked against the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS); while the original sampling coordinates were plotted using Google Earth in order to double check that they are located in the sea. All data were checked for inconsistencies, both for the range of values, but also compared to other datasets from the same series, collected at the same station. Any problematic records were recorded in a remarks field in the data.

Method steps

  1. Data were digitized by hand, then quality controlled, and published through the MedOBIS IPT installation.

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS. Publication: Rescuing biogeographic legacy data: The "Thor" Expedition, a historical oceanographic expedition to the Mediterranean Sea. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e11054 (22 Dec 2016). https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e11054

Taxonomic Coverages

Alciopidae, Amphinomidae, Lopadorrhynchidae, Polynoidae, Typhloscolecidae, Lopadorhynchidae
  1. Polynoidae
    rank: family
  2. Phyllodocidae
    rank: family
  3. Typhloscolecidae
    rank: family
  4. Alciopidae
    rank: family
  5. Amphinomidae
    rank: family
  6. Lopadorrhynchidae
    rank: family

Geographic Coverages

Mediterranean and adjacent waters, with some stations from other expeditions from the tropical Atlantic Ocean.

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Wesenberg-Lund, E (1939) Pelagic polychaetes of the families Aphroditidae, Phyllodocidae, Lopadorhynchidae and Alciopidae. Report on the Danish Oceanographical Expedition 1908-10 to the Mediterranean and adjacent seas. Vol 2 Biology (E1). Høst, Copenhagen, 49 pp. -

Contacts

Dimitra Mavraki
originator
position: Data Manager
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture
email: dmavraki@hcmr.gr
Dimitra Mavraki
metadata author
position: Data Manager
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture
email: dmavraki@hcmr.gr
Stamatina Nikolopoulou
curator
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture
email: snikolo@hcmr.gr
Sarah Faulwetter
curator
position: Post Doc
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture
email: sarifa@hcmr.gr
userId: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=owodyPEAAAAJ
Dimitra Mavraki
administrative point of contact
position: Data Manager
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture
email: dmavraki@hcmr.gr
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