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Taxa

Location

Habitats

Database

Years

Data Provider

 

 

 

 

 

Academy of Natural Sciences

Molluscs

World

All

Invertebrate Palaeontology Database

 

 

Molluscs

Indo-Pacific region

All

OBIS Mollusc Database

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Plants

World

Seashore

Herbarium

 

 

Elephant Seal

Indian Ocean, sub-Antarctic

Seashore

Elephant Seal Sightings, Heard Island

1947-1955

 

Elephant Seal

Antarctic

Seashore

Elephant Seal Sightings, Macquarie Island

1993-2003

 

Avian

Southern & S. Indian Ocean

Sea surface

Seabirds

1980's

 

Weddell Seal

East Antarctica, Vestfold Hills

Seashore

Weddell Seal census

1983 – 1996

 

Weddell Seal

East Antarctica, Vestfold Hills

Seashore

Weddell Seal sightings

1983 – 1996

 

Whales

Southern Ocean

Pelagic

Whale catches

1931 to 1980

 

 

 

 

 

 

Canadian Museum of Nature

Fish

Canada

SubSeashore

Fish Collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Centre of Marine Biodiversity

Rare species

Atlantic Canada

All

Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre

 

 

All taxa

Atlantic Canada

All

Atlantic Reference Centre

 

 

All taxa

Bay of Fundy, Atlantic Canada

All

Bay of Fundy Species List

 

 

Fish

Atlantic Canada

SubSeashore

DFO Scotian Summer Trawl Survey

 

 

Benthic

Atlantic Canada

Seabed

Eastern Canada Benthic macrofauna

 

 

Fish, invertebrates

Atlantic Canada & USA

SubSeashore

ECNASAP

1970 – 1994

 

Fish

Atlantic Canada, Scotian Shelf

Plankton

Ichthyoplankton

1919 – 2001

 

Invertebrates

British Columbia, Pacific Canada

Seabed

Gwaii Haanas Invertebrates

 

 

Plants

British Columbia, Pacific Canada

Seabed

Gwaii Haanas Plants

1911 – 1999

 

Invertebrates

Atlantic Canada, Gulf of Maine

All

Marine Invertebrate Diversity Initiative

 

 

Birds, mammals, fish

Atlantic Canada

All

Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History

1873 – 2002

 

Copepods

Arctic, Resolute Passage

Plankton

DFO Resolute Passage

1983 – 1989

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Ann Bucklin

Calanoid copepods, euphausiids

World

Plankton

ZooGene, a DNA sequence database

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Daphne Fautin

Anemones and relatives

World

All

Hexacorals of the World

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Karen Stocks

Fauna

World

Deep Sea

SeamountsOnline

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Mark Costello

Benthic

Republic of Ireland

Seabed

BIOMAR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duke University

Birds, mammals, turtles

World

All

OBIS-SEAMAP

1947 – 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

FishBase

Fish

World

All

FishBase

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IFREMER

Benthic

World

Deep Sea

BIOCEAN

1967 – 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

IMIS: Integrated Marine Information System

All taxa

World

All

Taxonomic Information System for Belgian coast

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

All taxa

USA

Seabed

National Benthic Inventory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NeMys (Generic Taxonomical Database System)

Seabed

Mysids, nematodes

 

World

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOAA-National Oceanographic Data Center

Plankton

World

Plankton

NODC WOD01 Plankton Database

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science

Phytoplankton

World

Plankton

Continuous Plankton Recorder phytoplankton

1931 -

 

Zooplankton

World

Plankton

Continuous Plankton Recorder zooplankton

1931 -

 

 

 

 

 

 

Southampton Oceanography Centre

All taxa

World

Mid-water

Discovery mid-water collections

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Universities of New Hampshire, Hull and Southern Denmark

Fish

World

SubSeashore

HMAP-History of Marine Animal Populations

Last 2000 yrs

 

 

 

 

 

 

University of Texas Medical Branch

Cephalopods

World

SubSeashore

CephBase

1998 -

 

 

 

 

 

 

US Environmental Protection Agency

All taxa

USA

Deep Sea

EMAP Database

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Zooplankton

Bermuda

Plankton

Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS)

1994-2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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