Description
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 1,915 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Wetzer R, Wall J, Wall A, Perez E, Pentcheff N D, Haymaker C, Harris L, Barve V (2025). California Bight Survey 2003. Version 1.1. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=bight2003&v=1.1
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 570efec6-927c-4c24-9fbf-ed8caab9ef33. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Curator and Director Marine Biodiversity Center
- 900 Exposition Boulevard
- +1-213-763-3217
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2674-5150
- Originator
- DigIn Specialist and Collections Manager
- 900 Exposition Boulevard
- Originator
- Collections Manager, Crustacea
- 900 Exposition Boulevard
- Originator
- Digitization Technician
- 900 Exposition Boulevard
- Originator
- DISCO Project Manager
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- Originator
- Associate Collections Manager
- 900 Exposition Boulevard
- Originator
- Collections Manager, Polychaetes
- 900 Exposition Boulevard
- Originator
- Digitization Project Manager
- 900 Exposition Boulevard
Geographic Coverage
The Southern California Bight between Point Conception and the United States–Mexico border, were sampled between 14 July – 16 October 2003. For each station, station identifier, sampling date, geographic coordinates in decimal degrees, depth in meters, percent fine sediments (< 63 µm) dry weight, and location information is contained in the “Station Data” spreadsheet in the accompanying Excel workbook.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [32.548, -120.609], North East [34.465, -117.116] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Phylum | Arthropoda, Nemertea, Annelida, Chordata, Hemichordata, Echinodermata, Mollusca, Porifera, Phoronida, Bryozoa, Cnidaria |
| Class | Holothuroidea, Hydrozoa, Ostracoda, Clitellata, Polychaeta, Hexacorallia, Bivalvia, Ascidiacea, Octocorallia, Pycnogonida, Gastropoda, Demospongiae, Enteropneusta, Thecostraca, Gymnolaemata, Calcarea, Echinoidea, Polyplacophora, Cephalopoda, Ophiuroidea, Hexactinellida, Malacostraca, Asteroidea |
| Order | Nudibranchia, Pectinida, Amphipoda, Ophiurida, Decapoda, Spionida, Amphinomida, Phlebobranchia, Apodida, Chitonida, Myodocopida, Tetractinellida, Scleralcyonacea, Oegopsida, Valvatida, Cheilostomatida, Spinulosida, Lepetellida, Stolidobranchia, Spatangoida, Sabellida, Ophiacanthida, Sipuncula, Cumacea, Trochida, Myopsida, Sepiolida, Mysida, Neogastropoda, Stomatopoda, Cephalaspidea, Pantopoda, Phyllodocida, Balanomorpha, Forcipulatida, Leucosolenida, Tanaidacea, Malacalcyonacea, Echiuroidea, Littorinimorpha, Eunicida, Actiniaria, Enteropneusta incertae sedis, Paxillosida, Euryalida, Leptostraca, Siphonophorae, Tethyida, Sceptrulophora, Terebellida, Ctenostomatida, Amphilepidida, Camarodonta, Isopoda |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2003-07-14 / 2003-10-16 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | DigInTCN |
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| Identifier | DigInTCN |
The personnel involved in the project:
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 570efec6-927c-4c24-9fbf-ed8caab9ef33 |
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| https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=bight2003 |