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A Dataset of Deep-Sea Fishes Surveyed by Research Vessels in the Waters around Taiwan

Abstract. The study of deep-sea fish fauna is hampered by a lack of data due to the difficulty and high cost incurred in its surveys and collections. Taiwan is situated along the edge of the Eurasia fig, at the junction of three Large Marine Ecosystems or Ecoregions of the East China Sea, South Chin...

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Autores principales: Shao, Kwang-Tsao, Lin, Jack, Yeh, Hsin-Ming, Lee, Mao-Yin, Chen, Lee-Sea, Lin, Hen-Wei
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Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4296486/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25610339
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.466.8523
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author Shao, Kwang-Tsao
Lin, Jack
Yeh, Hsin-Ming
Lee, Mao-Yin
Chen, Lee-Sea
Lin, Hen-Wei
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Lin, Jack
Yeh, Hsin-Ming
Lee, Mao-Yin
Chen, Lee-Sea
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description Abstract. The study of deep-sea fish fauna is hampered by a lack of data due to the difficulty and high cost incurred in its surveys and collections. Taiwan is situated along the edge of the Eurasia fig, at the junction of three Large Marine Ecosystems or Ecoregions of the East China Sea, South China Sea and the Philippines. As nearly two-thirds of its surrounding marine ecosystems are deep-sea environments, Taiwan is expected to hold a rich diversity of deep-sea fish. However, in the past, no research vessels were employed to collect fish data on site. Only specimens, caught by bottom trawl fishing in the waters hundreds of meters deep and missing precise locality information, were collected from Dasi and Donggang fishing harbors. Began in 2001, with the support of National Science Council, research vessels were made available to take on the task of systematically collecting deep-sea fish specimens and occurrence records in the waters surrounding Taiwan. By the end of 2006, a total of 3,653 specimens, belonging to 26 orders, 88 families, 198 genera and 366 species, were collected in addition to data such as sampling site geographical coordinates and water depth, and fish body length and weight. The information, all accessible from the “Database of Taiwan’s Deep-Sea Fauna and Its Distribution (http://deepsea.biodiv.tw/)” as part of the “Fish Database of Taiwan,” can benefit the study of temporal and spatial changes in distribution and abundance of fish fauna in the context of global deep-sea biodiversity.
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spelling pubmed-42964862015-01-21 A Dataset of Deep-Sea Fishes Surveyed by Research Vessels in the Waters around Taiwan Shao, Kwang-Tsao Lin, Jack Yeh, Hsin-Ming Lee, Mao-Yin Chen, Lee-Sea Lin, Hen-Wei Zookeys Data Paper Abstract. The study of deep-sea fish fauna is hampered by a lack of data due to the difficulty and high cost incurred in its surveys and collections. Taiwan is situated along the edge of the Eurasia fig, at the junction of three Large Marine Ecosystems or Ecoregions of the East China Sea, South China Sea and the Philippines. As nearly two-thirds of its surrounding marine ecosystems are deep-sea environments, Taiwan is expected to hold a rich diversity of deep-sea fish. However, in the past, no research vessels were employed to collect fish data on site. Only specimens, caught by bottom trawl fishing in the waters hundreds of meters deep and missing precise locality information, were collected from Dasi and Donggang fishing harbors. Began in 2001, with the support of National Science Council, research vessels were made available to take on the task of systematically collecting deep-sea fish specimens and occurrence records in the waters surrounding Taiwan. By the end of 2006, a total of 3,653 specimens, belonging to 26 orders, 88 families, 198 genera and 366 species, were collected in addition to data such as sampling site geographical coordinates and water depth, and fish body length and weight. The information, all accessible from the “Database of Taiwan’s Deep-Sea Fauna and Its Distribution (http://deepsea.biodiv.tw/)” as part of the “Fish Database of Taiwan,” can benefit the study of temporal and spatial changes in distribution and abundance of fish fauna in the context of global deep-sea biodiversity. Pensoft Publishers 2014-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4296486/ /pubmed/25610339 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.466.8523 Text en Kwang-Tsao Shao, Jack Lin, Hsin-Ming Yeh, Mao-Yin Lee, Lee-Sea Chen, Hen-Wei Lin http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Shao, Kwang-Tsao
Lin, Jack
Yeh, Hsin-Ming
Lee, Mao-Yin
Chen, Lee-Sea
Lin, Hen-Wei
A Dataset of Deep-Sea Fishes Surveyed by Research Vessels in the Waters around Taiwan
title A Dataset of Deep-Sea Fishes Surveyed by Research Vessels in the Waters around Taiwan
title_full A Dataset of Deep-Sea Fishes Surveyed by Research Vessels in the Waters around Taiwan
title_fullStr A Dataset of Deep-Sea Fishes Surveyed by Research Vessels in the Waters around Taiwan
title_full_unstemmed A Dataset of Deep-Sea Fishes Surveyed by Research Vessels in the Waters around Taiwan
title_short A Dataset of Deep-Sea Fishes Surveyed by Research Vessels in the Waters around Taiwan
title_sort dataset of deep-sea fishes surveyed by research vessels in the waters around taiwan
topic Data Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4296486/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25610339
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.466.8523
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