Date (Creation)

2025-05-28

Date (Revision)

2025-05-28

Date (Publication)

2025-05-28

Date (released)

2025-05-28

Edition

1.0

Unique resource identifier

https://doi.org/10.5285/482dc331-81c0-4dd1-9d0e-aeeec5442132

Codespace

doi

Unique resource identifier

GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/02067

Codespace

https://data.bas.ac.uk/

Unique resource identifier

NE/I005803/1

Codespace

award

Other citation details

Please cite this item as: Crame, A. (2025). Inventory of tropical, shallow marine molluscs from twelve regional localities (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/482dc331-81c0-4dd1-9d0e-aeeec5442132

Credit

No credit.

Status

Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Antarctic Survey	Crame, Alistair		Author
NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre		PDCServiceDesk@bas.ac.uk	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed

Maintenance note

Completed

Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords

• EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Animal Taxonomy > Mollusks
• EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Biodiversity
• EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Exotic Species
• EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Animal Taxonomy

Theme

• Imparidentia

• Neogastropoda

• mollusca

• polar-tropical comparisons

• species lists

• tropical high diversity

Place

• Western Australia Tropics

• New Caledonia Tropics

• Tropical West Atlantic Tropics

• East China Sea Tropics

• Indonesia - Philippines Tropics

• Queensland and Northern Territory Tropics

• Guam Tropics

• Panamic Province Tropics

• French Polynesia Tropics

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Habitats and biotopes

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

public access limited according to Article 13(1)(e) of the INSPIRE Directive

Use constraints

License

Other constraints

Open Government Licence v3.0

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Data supplied under Open Government Licence v3.0

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Under embargo until publication of associated article.

Unique resource identifier

url

Codespace

url

Association Type

Cross reference

Spatial representation type

Text, table

Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Begin date

2015-01-01

End date

2025-05-28

Supplemental Information

It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.

Title

European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry

Date (Publication)

2008-11-12

Cited responsible party

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
European Petroleum Survey Group		EPSGadministrator@iogp.org	Publisher

Unique resource identifier

urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::3031

Version

6.18.3

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

Methodology:

Data gathered from primary literature sources and some websites over a number of years. It has been constantly updated and revised by the author. Literature was identified that contained tropical mollusc species information but not through a systematic review.

Data are split into Neogastropoda and Imparidentia

Regions are classified into the following 9 regions:

- Western Australia - Essentially the Bonaparte Archipelago (around 14 degrees S) south to approximately 30 degrees S (Crame 2000, table 1).

- Queensland and Northern Territory - Essentially the Darwin area to Brisbane; both offshore reef and coastal faunas included (Crame 2000, table 1).

- East China Sea - East China Sea, Yellow Sea, southern Honshu, Taiwan, Hong Kong (Crame 2000, table 1).

- Indonesia/Philippines - Essentially the Indonesian and Philippinian subprovinces of Petuch & Berschauer (2021, fig, 6.1); see also Crame 2000, table 1. It should be noted that a considerable amount of work remains to be done on the prolific micromollusc fauna from this region, but it is estimated that the total gastropod fauna may well eventually be in excess of 10,000 species (Bouchet 2008).

- Tropical Western Atlantic - Northern limit set as South Carolina (around 35 degrees N) and the southernmost on the South American coast at Guyana (5 degrees N). All principal Caribbean islands included but Gulf of Mexico excluded. Essentially the Caribbean Molluscan Province of Petuch & Berschauer (2021, fig. 2.3).

- Panamic Province - Boundaries as defined in Crame 2000, table 1 and Petuch & Berschauer 2021, fig. 4.3.

- Guam - Coral reef and associated shallow marine habitats surrounding the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands. Although mcrogastropods are understudied, the shallow-water marine biota of Guam is the best documented anywhere in Micronesia (Paulay 2003).

- French Polynesia - A total of 1977 gastropod species from 118 volcanic and low coral reef islands includes 491 morphospecies (Trondle and Boutet 2009). Many micromollusc groups still under review.

- New Caledonia - Intensive sampling obtained approximately 3200 gastropod species from less than 100m water depth, many of which are tiny, rare, and yet to be formally described (Bouchet et al. 2002; Heros et al. 2007).

Data quality:

Continual checks until publication to ensure that the latest taxonomic names and classifications are included.

Metadata

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482dc331-81c0-4dd1-9d0e-aeeec5442132 XML

Metadata language

English

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UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Hierarchy level name

dataset

Date stamp

2025-05-28

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata

Metadata standard version

ISO 19115:2003(E)

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre		polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk	Point of contact