SIO Pelagic Invertebrate Collection

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by Scripps Institution of Oceanography on Sep 4, 2025 Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Publication date:
4 September 2025
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

The Pelagic Invertebrate Collection at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO-PIC), University of California San Diego is a worldwide collection with particular geographic strengths in the Eastern North Pacific, Indo-West Pacific, and Southern Ocean. Samples have been collected from a wide variety of nets, trawls, and pumps from the surface to the bathypelagic zone. This collection is a long-term repository for specimens and invertebrate zooplankton time series sample sets including the remarkable California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI), which has surveyed the California Current since 1949, the California Current Ecosystem Long Term Ecological Research (CCE-LTER) program, and the Hawaii Ocean time series (HOT). SIO-PIC contains unsorted mixed community net tow event samples as well as voucher specimens (fluid-preserved in formaldehyde, ethanol, isopropyl alcohol, or glycerol). The voucher specimen data are available here through GBIF. Many samples are suitable for molecular analysis. We also maintain a searchable electronic database for our net tow event samples, including mapping features, accessible online at: https://sioapps.ucsd.edu/collections/pi/ This research and teaching repository represents the collection efforts of SIO scientists, federal and state agencies, and external researchers for over 120 years. This collection supports scientific research by providing specimens for study of the systematics, evolution, and ecology of pelagic invertebrates and their roles in marine food webs and ocean biogeochemical cycles. Specimens are available for examination at SIO and for loan to researchers at recognized institutions under the terms of our loan policies. The SIO-PIC staff and materials also support graduate and undergraduate courses, guest lectures, research, and school programming, in addition to the exhibits and education and outreach mission at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 27,507 records.

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Sala L (2025). SIO Pelagic Invertebrate Collection. Version 1.12. Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=sio-pic&v=1.12

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Scripps Institution of Oceanography. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 15d678bd-774e-4717-976a-4d5e9a797398.  Scripps Institution of Oceanography publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Linsey Sala
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Collection Manager
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
  • 9500 Gilman Drive #0244
92093-0244 La Jolla
California
US
  • +1-858-534-2071
Moira Decima
  • Point Of Contact
  • PI and Curator
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
  • 9500 Gilman
92093-0244 La Jolla
California
US
  • +1-858-246-4710
Vijay Barve
  • Reviewer
  • Digitization Project Manager
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
  • 900 Exposition Boulevard
90007 Los Angeles
California
US

Geographic Coverage

Global

Bounding Coordinates South West [-64.468, -178.276], North East [56.409, 178.894]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Chromista, Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda, Chordata, Chaetognatha, Foraminifera
Class Globothalamea, Sagittoidea, Copepoda, Malacostraca
Order Calanoida, Decapoda, Harpacticoida, Rotaliida, Copelata, Aphragmophora, Phragmophora, Euphausiacea, Cyclopoida
Family Paracalanidae, Candaciidae, Corycaeidae, Sagittidae, Scolecitrichidae, Phaennidae, Augaptilidae, Fritillariidae, Diaptomidae, Eucalanidae, Krohnittidae, Megacalanidae, Tisbidae, Peltidiidae, Pterosagittidae, Clausocalanidae, Tharybidae, Subeucalanidae, Fosshageniidae, Bathypontiidae, Thaumatopsyllidae, Scyllaridae, Rhincalanidae, Nullosetigeridae, Metridinidae, Euphausiidae, Temoridae, Globigerinidae, Sergestidae, Calanidae, Spinocalanidae, Heterorhabdidae, Sapphirinidae, Oithonidae, Parapontellidae, Euchaetidae, Lucicutiidae, Petalidiumidae, Pseudodiaptomidae, Eukrohniidae, Pontellidae, Arietellidae, Pseudocyclopidae, Stephidae, Palinuridae, Centropagidae, Aetideidae, Bentheuphausiidae, Acartiidae, Tortanidae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1895-02-07 / 2011-01-02

Project Data

No Description available

Title DigInTCN

The personnel involved in the project:

Linsey Sala

Additional Metadata