Porifera collection of the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA)
This new dataset presents occurrence data for Porifera collected in the Ross Sea, mainly in the Terra Nova Bay area, and curated at the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA, section of Genoa). Specimens were collected in 331 different sampling stations at depths ranging from 17 to 1100 meters in the framework of 17 different Italian Antarctic expeditions funded by the Italian National Antarctic Research Program (PNRA).
This dataset focuses on all classes (Calcarea, Demospongiae, Hexactinellida and Homoscleromorpha) of the Phylum Porifera (Kingdom Animalia), and includes a total of 807 specimens belonging to 144 morphospecies (with 95 taxa classified at species level and 49 at genus level), are included in the dataset and representing 12 orders and 30 families.
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- Date (Creation)
- Citation identifier
- https://doi.org/10.15468/robcnf
- Purpose
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All vouchers are permanently stored at the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA), Section of Genoa, enabling future comparison and crosschecking. This material is also currently under study, from a molecular point of view, by the barcoding project "BAMBi" (PNRA 2010/A1.10).
- Status
- On going
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Species distribution
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Bio-geographical regions
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NASA Thesaurus
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DNA
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GCMD - Instruments
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DREDGING DEVICES
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MIDWATER TRAWLS
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GCMD - Locations
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ANTARCTICA
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SCAR Gazetteer of Antarctica
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Ross Sea
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Terra Nova Bay
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GCMD - Providers
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IT/MNA
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IT/PNRA
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- Use limitation
- CC BY 4.0
- Association Type
- dependency
- Initiative Type
- Campaign
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Denominator
- 1
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
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- Begin date
- 1988-01-06
- End date
- 2014-02-01 Now
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS84
- Distribution format
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Darwin core
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Darwin core
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- OnLine resource
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CoreSampleData
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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Database for biological samples taken during the Italian Antarctic expeditions and preserved at the repository of the Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide.
- OnLine resource
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Biological Collections
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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The MNA biological collections are articulated in five different sub-collections each one conserving and curating different kind of samples.
- OnLine resource
- Ghiglione%20et%20al_Zookeys_2018_Porifera.pdf ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Domain consistency
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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- Yes
- Statement
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Specimens were classified at the lowest possible taxonomic level. During all the phases of sorting, classification and storage of samples at the Italian National Antarctic Museum, quality controls and data cleaning have been undertaken at various steps in order to produce quality data and make consistent cross-references between the database and samples' labels. The MNA uses an SQL-based database to manage its collections and link all the data (photos, sequences, etc.) to the physical samples.
- File identifier
- 018fb98d-6bdc-4c0e-a3a1-5ed40fb2a4e4 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-05-30T16:00:54
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
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