GAB Research Program: Project 3.1 – Museum specimens: data collation

This record describes a derived data set of museum records collated and quality assured in 2015 by Shirley Sorokin (SARDI), Franzis Althaus (CSIRO), Karen Gowlett-Holmes (CSIRO) and Jason Tanner (SARDI) under the GAB Research Program. The GABRP aims to describe the key elements of the GAB marine ecosystem. This understanding of the structure and function of the ecosystem will be used to inform future integrated and sustainable ocean management and assessment/mitigation of potential future impacts. The collation and examination of museum data contributed to our endeavor of documenting existing knowledge of species distributions in the GAB region.Museum database managers were asked to provide an inventory of all specimens listed in their respective data bases that were collected in Australian waters between Perth and Sydney at >=200 m depth. The data were collated and CAAB identifiers were added taking into account differences in spelling, synonyms (outdated names) etc. Where uncertainty in an identification existed the next higher level in the taxonomic hierarchy was used for assigning CAAB.本记录记述了一套衍生数据集，该数据集由Shirley Sorokin（SARDI）、Franzis Althaus（CSIRO）、Karen Gowlett-Holmes（CSIRO）与Jason Tanner（SARDI）于2015年在GAB研究计划（GAB Research Program）框架下，对馆藏标本记录进行整理并完成质量管控后生成。GAB研究计划（GABRP）旨在阐明GAB海洋生态系统的核心构成要素。对该生态系统结构与功能的认知成果，将为未来一体化可持续海洋管理，以及潜在未来影响的评估与减缓工作提供决策依据。本次馆藏数据的整理与审查工作，助力我们完善GAB区域物种分布现有认知的文档记录工作。项目组邀请各博物馆数据库管理人员，提交其数据库中收录的、于澳大利亚珀斯至悉尼之间海域、水深≥200米处采集的全部标本清单。研究人员对收集到的数据进行整合，并结合拼写差异、异名（已废弃名称）等情况补充CAAB标识符（CAAB identifier）。若标本鉴定存在不确定性，则采用分类学层级中更高一级的分类单元来分配CAAB标识符。