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 plate, 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.
GBIF url: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/8c7571ee-8515-4b68-afc0-6f20da6a8a68
Citation: Shao K, Lin J (2020). A Dataset of Deep-Sea Fishes Surveyed by Research Vessels in the Waters around Taiwan. Version 10.1. Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility (TaiBIF). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/1ur6io accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-04-29.
GBIF url: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/8c7571ee-8515-4b68-afc0-6f20da6a8a68
Citation: Shao K, Lin J (2020). A Dataset of Deep-Sea Fishes Surveyed by Research Vessels in the Waters around Taiwan. Version 10.1. Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility (TaiBIF). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/1ur6io accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-04-29.
資料集編號
8c7571ee-8515-4b68-afc0-6f20da6a8a68 (DatasetUUID)
其他標題
資料集作者
Kwang-Tsao Shao、Jack Lin
資料集發佈者
Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility (TaiBIF)
資料集來源
GBIF
資料集標籤
資料集關鍵字
授權
創用CC-姓名標示-非商業性
詮釋資料更新日期
2024-08-28
觀測資料最新匯入日期
類群
魚類
紀錄筆數
3,653
下載次數
366