TABLE 1 in Australia's deep-water octocoral fauna: historical account and checklist, distributions and regional affinities of recent collections

TABLE 1. Summary of the number of sampling stations and depth ranges of octocoral collections during 6 biodiversity surveys in four regions in offshore Australian waters; number of sampling stations are broken down by sampling gear type (see text for references of gear types and survey codes). The numbers and depth range of sampling stations where octocoral were collected are shown separately. Survey regionNorth TasmanSouth-eastern AustraliaSouth-western AustraliaNorth-western AustraliaOverallSurvey year2003199720072008200520071997–2008Survey CodeTan0308SS01/97SS02/07TT01/08SS10/05SS05/07Grand TotalDepth range (m)77–1927670–1694105–1255729–395086–109278–102277–3950Number of sampling stationsTotalSP-Sample1)TotalSP-Sample1)TOTALSP-Sample1)TOTALSP-Sample1)TOTALSP-Sample1)TOTALSP-Sample1)TOTALSP-Sample1)574728274645775774645451336291Beam trawl1310373033308372CSIRO Sherman sled16132726464537321212138128NIWA sled2121Rock dredge111122Commercial fish trawl1513992423Ratcatcher trawl109109Dropline1111ROV Jason76567656 1) SP-Sample identifies the number of sampling stations from which octocorals were identified to species-level