Occurrence dataset Registered August 06, 2010

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

    Published by SCAR - AntOBIS

    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.

    Geographic scope

    Description

    Antarctica

    Latitude
    From -80 to -16
    Longitude
    From -180 to 180

    Temporal scope

    range
    January 01, 1842 - January 01, 1842

    Taxonomic scope

    Description

    urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1803

    Coverage
    Brachiopoda [Lamp shells]

    Metrics

    Additional info

    marine, harvested by iOBIS

    Contacts

    • Data Manager

      Originator
      Organization
      Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility (ANTABIF)
      Roles
      Originator
      Email
    • Anton Van de Putte

      Metadata author
      Administrative point of contact
      Organization
      Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility (ANTABIF)
      Position
      Project Manager
      Roles
      Metadata author
      Administrative point of contact
      Email
    • Christian Emig

      Custodian steward
      Organization
      BrachNet
      Roles
      Custodian steward
      Email

    GBIF registration

    Registration date
    August 06, 2010
    Metadata last modified
    March 19, 2019
    Publication date
    March 19, 2019
    Hosted by
    Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility (ANTABIF)
    Installation
    ANTABIF IPT
    Endpoints
    Darwin Core Archive
    EML
    Preferred identifier
    10.15468/ein0wp
    Alternative identifiers

    Citation

    Emig C, Geographic distribution of Brachiopod species in the Antarctic - Subantarctic region, [year accessed]. available from the SCAR-MarBIN website. https://doi.org/10.15468/ein0wp accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-08-24.