Antipatharians of the NE Atlantic Margin

Sampling event Observation
Latest version published on 15 July 2025
Publication date:
15 July 2025
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License:
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Description

This dataset contains annotations of black corals (Hexacorallia:Antipatharia) observed in the ROV videos recorded during the RV Celtic Explorer surveys: CE13008, CE14009, CE16006, CE17008, CE18012, CE21010, CE23010. Annotations have been recorded in VARS and morphospecies names have been attributed according to an in-house guide. 

Data Records

The data in this sampling event 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 346 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.

Event (core)
346
Occurrence 
10106

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

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Parimbelli, A., Laguionie-Marchais, C., Cross, E., Keeney, C., McLoughlin, A. K., Rizzi, A., Allcock, A. L. 2025. Antipatharians of the NE Atlantic Margin

Rights

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

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Keywords

Occurrence; Observation

Contacts

Alexa Parimbelli
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
University of Galway
H91TK33 Galway
Galway
IE
Claire Laguionie-Marchais
  • Originator
A. Louise Allcock
  • Originator
Eleanor Cross
  • Originator
University of Plymouth
Charlie Keeney
  • Originator
University of Plymouth
Aisling K. McLoughlin
  • Originator
Alessia Rizzi
  • Originator

Geographic Coverage

The data was collected on the Whittard Canyon, Porcupine Bank, Irish Continental Slope, Belgica Mounds, and Fangorn Bank.

Bounding Coordinates South West [45.706, -25.313], North East [59.534, -8.525]

Project Data

No Description available

Title Assessing deep-sea Antipatharia biodiversity, distribution and ecological role to conserve deep water ecosystems
Project Award Assessing deep-sea Antipatharia biodiversity, distribution and ecological role to conserve deep water ecosystems

Research Ireland
GOIPG/2022/765

The personnel involved in the project:

Alexa Parimbelli

Sampling Methods

ROV data was collected with ROV Holland I, deployed from RV Celtic Explorer

Study Extent The study encompasses the NE Atlantic Margin as per Morrissey et al., 2023

Method step description:

  1. Each ROV video was annotated using a local copy of VARS v. 8.3.1. Each annotation was at the lowest taxonomical level possible, ideally species, although most of the annotations are of genera. Annotation were merged with a dataset containing the position of the ROV (retrieved through OFOP and Sonardyne) by the real time of observation.

Additional Metadata

Acknowledgements

Expeditions CE13008, CE16006, CE21010, CE23010 (led by ALA) and CE14009 (led by Martin White, University of Galway) were supported by the Marine Institute and funded under the Marine Research Programme by the Government of Ireland. Expeditions CE17008 and CE18012 were funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and the Marine Institute under the Investigators Programme Grant No. SFI/15/1A/3100 to ALA, cofunded under the European Regional Development Fund 2014–2020.

Maintenance Description The data will be update in case of errors in the annotation data.
Alternative Identifiers https://www.dassh.ac.uk/ipt/resource?r=antipatharianeatlantic