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Soela Voyage SO 1/79 Biological Data Overview

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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This record is an overview entry for biological data collected on Soela cruise SO 1/79. This cruise took place in the North West Shelf during 21 November - 17 December 1979, under the leadership of Peter Young. Biological data collected on this cruise include distribution, abundance, lengths, weights, sex, and gonadal conditions for the following fish families: Lutjanidae (8 species), Nemipteridae (5 species), Pentapodidae (1 species), Lethrinidae (4 species), Pomadasyidae (1 species) and Priacanthidae (2 species). Stomach contents, scales and otoliths were also retained from these species and from Synodontidae. Photographs of approximately 200 fish species for the CSIRO taxonomic and photographic index of North West Shelf fishes. Plankton samples from day and night sampling. Deep midwater fish samples for the Australian Museum. Benthic invertebrate samples from all trawls and dredges for the Western Austalian Museum.(derived from the cruise report) - Biological Field Data Sheets recorded during this voyage have been scanned to PDF, and are available (to CSIRO Staff) on-line. See the details link under "Stored Media List" (below).

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Title Soela Voyage SO 1/79 Biological Data Overview
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/6141773a-970b-47d3-9906-c3cb7399cc29
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 27/11/1979 - 17/12/1979
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "Soela Voyage SO 1/79 Biological Data Overview". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/soela-voyage-so-1-79-biological-data-overview1