Ophiuroidea collections of the Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences

Occurrence
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Description

A total of 309 species and subspecies of Ophiuridae (brittle stars) are available in the Marine Research Laboratory of the Zoological Institute RAS collection mainly from cold and temperate waters of the World Ocean (polar and middle latitude regions).

Collection is divided into systematic and non identified parts. The systematic part of the collection is stored in taxonomycal order (according to family, genus and species), while non identified part — according to expeditions. Systematic collection consists of 9591 lots (Lot in this case — a part of hydrobiological sample with specimens of a certain ophiuroid species. One lot may contain several hundreds of specimens.) whereas non identified part — of more than 500 lots. All materials are divided into alcoholic and dry. As a rule, alcoholic collections are stored in small trays in cabinets, while dry — above them in entresols.

In the Echinoderms Department along with the catalogue of type specimens two more catalogues are managed: inventory for numbering all lots and systematic, where lots with the same species are numbered. During the reidentification of the material numbers in systematic catalogue are changed, while inventory numbers remain permanent.

Several ophiuroid specimens where obtained before 1899. The main collection originates from the materials of the famous first Russian research vessel “Andrey Pervozvannyi” (1899). Since that time many regions of the World Ocean were sampled and lot of materials were collected by Zoological Institute researchers. Some of these data already stored in a database are made available through this online facility. We constantly add new data and correct information in records.

These data have not only scientific and historical aspects [7]. Accumulation of monitoring collections over a broad period of time [6] made it possible to track changes in marine ecosystems under climatic, hydrologic and anthropogenic influence [1–3]. Thus, on the basis of ophiurid collections from the Barents Sea changes in species areas forced by climatic influence were analyzed [4, 5].

Digitizing of research collections of the Zoological Institute is performed within the framework of RFBR №15-29-02457 (competition of oriented basic research on important interdisciplinary themes 2015) «The collections of the Zoological Institute as an important tool and information basis of fundamental biological research» (project leader Dr. Ananjeva N.B.).

Data Records

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How to cite

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Smirnov I, Golikov A, Khalikov R (2024). Ophiuroidea collections of the Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences. Version 1.60. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.zin.ru/resource?r=zin_ophiuridae&v=1.60

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GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 98333cb6-6c15-4add-aa0e-b322bf1500ba.  Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Society for the Management of Electronic Biodiversity Data.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Igor Smirnov
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Senior Researcher, Echinoderms Department of Marine Research Laboratory
Zoological Institute RAS
  • Universitetskaya emb., 1
199034 Saint Petersburg
RU
  • +7 (812) 328-13-11
Alexey Golikov
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Senior Engineer, IT Department
Zoological Institute RAS
  • Universitetskaya emb., 1
199034 Saint Petersburg
RU
  • +7 (812) 328-06-11
Roman Khalikov
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Head, IT Department
Zoological Institute RAS
  • Universitetskaya emb., 1
199034 Saint Petersburg
RU
  • +7 (812) 328-06-11

Geographic Coverage

Sampling was carried out all over the World Ocean.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

Ophiuroidea collections identified to species.

Class Ophiuroidea (brittlestars)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1800-01-01 / 2011-01-01

Sampling Methods

Sampling was carried out using various gears: trawls, grabs, diving collections etc.

Study Extent Sampling was carried out all over the World Ocean in the period from 1800 to present using various gears in different seasons.

Method step description:

  1. Collected materials on Ophiuroidea (dry and wet: alcohol) were identified to species and stored in the collections of the Zoological Institute RAS.

Collection Data

Collection Name Ophiuroidea collections of Echinoderms Department of Marine Research Laboratory, Zoological Institute RAS
Specimen preservation methods Dried,  Alcohol
Curatorial Units Count 200 +/- 10 species and subspecies

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Galkin YU. I. 1974. Mnogoletniye izmeneniya fauny Trochidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia) Barentseva morya // Gidrobiologiya i biogeografiya shel'fov kholodnykh i umerennykh vod Mirovogo okeana. S. 83–84.
  2. Galkin YU. I. 1986. Mnogoletniye izmeneniya donnoy fauny Barentseva morya // Zhizn' i usloviya yeye sushchestvovaniya v bentali Barentseva morya. Apatity. S. 43–52.
  3. Galkin YU. I. 1987. Kolebaniya klimata i fauna mollyuskov v Barentsevom more. L., № 1, CH. 1. S. 102–104.
  4. Smirnov I.S., Lobanov A.L., Dianov M.B., Doktorova M.M., Rachor E. 1995. Long-term changes of ophiuroid's fauna (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) of the Barents Sea during the period 1800–1992 // 5th Zonenshine conference on plate tectonics, Moscow, November 22–25, 1995. Program and Abstracts. P 52.
  5. Smirnov I.S., A.A. Golikov, N.A. Anisimova. 1998. Vliyaniye klimaticheskikh izmeneniy na raspredeleniye zmeyekhvostok (ECHINODERMATA, OPHIUROIDEA) Barentseva morya // Sovremennoye sostoyaniye planktona i bentosa, problemy sokhraneniya bioraznoobraziya arkticheskikh morey. Tezisy dokladov mezhdunarodnoy konferentsii g. Murmansk, 27–30 aprelya 1998 g. Murmansk: S. 97, 98.
  6. Smirnov I.S., Ryss A.YU. 1999. Biologicheskiye kollektsii i bazy dannykh // Informatsionno-poiskovyye sistemy v zoologii i botanike, Trudy Zoologicheskogo instituta RAN, T. 278, Sankt-Peterburg: S. 30–32.
  7. Smirnov I. S., Sirenko B. I., Lobanov A. L., Golikov A. A., Neyelov A. V., Voronina Ye. P. 2010b. Kollektsii morskogo istoricheskogo i prirodnogo naslediya po bioraznoobraziyu morey Rossii // Problemy izucheniya i sokhraneniya morskogo naslediya Rossii. Materialy Pervoy Mezhdunarodnoy nauchno-prakticheskoy konferentsii (Sankt-Peterburg, 27–30 oktyabrya 2010 g.). — Kaliningrad: Terra Baltika. — S. 85–93.

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 98333cb6-6c15-4add-aa0e-b322bf1500ba
https://ipt.zin.ru/resource?r=zin_ophiuridae