Metadata details
ASAC_116
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- Citation
- Dartnall, H. (2003) The Rotifers of Macquarie Island, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/ASAC_116, Accessed: 2026-06-27
- Title
- The Rotifers of Macquarie Island
- Data Centre
- Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
- Created Date
- 2000-07-18
- Revision Date
- 2017-04-26
- Parent record
- None
Datasets and documents
Related links
Description
Thirty-nine species (31 Monogononta and 8 Bdelloidea) are described from Macquarie Island. Thirty-eight of these are new records for the island. Included in the data are the distribution of rotifers at Macquarie Island, in fresh water and Brackish and a comparative measurement of Keratella sancta from New Zealand, Iles Kerguelen and Macquarie Island.
The fields in this dataset include:
pH
Location
Rotifers
Distribution: Present or Not found
Iles Kerguelen
Macquarie Island
New Zealand
Lorica Length
Lorica width
Length of spines
Access
The dataset is available for download from the URL given below or from the biodiversity database. Data also published to GBIF.
Temporal Coverages
- Start date: 1989-10-01 - Stop date: 1990-03-24
Spatial Coverages
Science Keywords
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES
Additional Keywords
- BDELLOIDEA
- BRACKISH
- FAUNA
- FRESH WATER
- LAGOON
- LAKE
- MACQUARIE ISLAND
- MONOGONONTA
- PLANKTONIC
- ROTIFERS
- TAXONOMY
Locations
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
Platforms
- None
Instruments
- None
Researchers
- dartnall, herbert (TECHNICAL CONTACT,DIF AUTHOR,INVESTIGATOR)
Use Constraints
This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=ASAC_116 when using these data.
