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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Nancy Foster, February 2005

Dataset ID: NOAA_NF-05-05
Database Version: 20240726-0
Data Provider: NOAA, Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment
Data Contact: Battista, Tim: tim.battista@noaa.gov

Locator Map

Geographic Range

Ocean: North Atlantic
Fishery Management Council Region(s): Caribbean
Large Marine Ecosystem(s): Caribbean Sea
Marine Ecoregion(s): Eastern Caribbean

Bounding box

Coordinates are in WGS 84: EPSG:4326

Minimum Latitude: 17.81197
Maximum Latitude: 18.18865
Minimum Longitude: -64.95145
Maximum Longitude: -64.61072

Overview

Note: The numbers below only reflect published records. Additional records may be retained by the Program for further review.

Number of records: 11
Number of coral records: 11
Number of sponge records: 0
Records with images: 0
Record type(s): still image
Minimum depth (meters): 110
Maximum depth (meters): 206
Number of records flagged as <50 meters depth: 0
Time frame: 2005 to 2005

Data Set Description: This is a subset of the Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program’s National Database. The data was acquired for the National Database from the research cruise National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Nancy Foster, February 2005 and was provided by Battista, Tim: tim.battista@noaa.gov. Changes to the original dataset may have been made to conform to the National Database Schema and for quality control purposes. This is a collection of NOAA, Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment records collected by ROV conducted from 2005-2005 in the Caribbean Sea. Further information can be found at: https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/seafloor-characterization-caribbean/

Collection methodogy details:

See link for methods.
Link: https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/seafloor-characterization-caribbean/

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Data Set Level Citation

NOAA, Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment. Observation date range: 2005 to 2005. Coral or sponge occurrence observations submitted to the NOAA National Database for Deep Sea Corals and Sponges (www.deepseacoraldata.noaa.gov). Principal investigator: Battista, Tim. DSCRTP Dataset ID: NOAA_NF-05-05. Database version: 20240726-0.

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Expedition Details

SurveyID	Vessel	VehicleName	SamplingEquipment	RecordType
NF0505	Nancy Foster R/V	Phantom ROV	ROV	still image

Taxonomic Summary

Percent of coral, sponge, and fish records by lowest taxonomic rank.

Corals

Number of coral records: 11

Taxon rank	Percent of all coral records
order	18 %
family	18 %
genus	64 %

Sponges

Number of sponge records: 0

## No sponge records in this data set.

Fishes

Number of fish records: 0

## No fish records in this data set.

Coral Taxa Observed

Note: Nothing will appear here if no coral taxa were observed.

ScientificName	AphiaID	Order	Family	Records
Antipatharia	22549	Antipatharia	NA	2
Chrysogorgia	125294	Scleralcyonacea	Chrysogorgiidae	1
Nicella	125299	Scleralcyonacea	Ellisellidae	4
Plexauridae	125277	Malacalcyonacea	Plexauridae	2
Stichopathes	103308	Antipatharia	Antipathidae	2

Sponge Taxa Observed

Note: Nothing will appear here if no sponge taxa were observed.

## No sponge records in this data set.

Fish Taxa Observed

Note: Nothing will appear here if no fish taxa were observed.

## No fish records in this data set.